Courtesy of Canah along the Danube River, Germany. Romanian Avram Iancu continues on his scheduled 60-day stage swim of 2,860 km along the Danube River through Europe. The 41-year-old librarian from Petrosani, Transylvania started his stage swim from Donaueschingen in the Black Forest in Germany. He is now heading into Day 42 as each day […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On July 28th and 29th, the inaugural 57-mile 40 Bridges – Double Manhattan Island Swim was hosted New York Open Water. The 91.6 km race is the world’s longest one-day, non-stop open water swimming competition. The new event starts and finishes at Pier A and circles Manhattan Island twice

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Granddaddy of Open Water Swims, as the 8-mile Boston Light Swim is called, will feature personality galore among the swimmers as 7 teams and 23 swimmers take to the cold-water course. The charismatic Ned Denison from Cork, Ireland and the gregarious Scott Zornig from Coto da Casa, California

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sally Anne Minty-Gravett, M.B.E. continues to receive honors for her remarkably consistent channel swimming career. Her first award was as an 18-year-old teenager when she won the 1975 Centenary Cup Award from the Channel Swimming Association for being the Fastest Swim of the Year by a British Person across

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was quite a swim around Manhattan Island when 43-year-old Julie Isbill of Perth Australia, 51-year-old Clair Harris of Berkshire, UK, and 52–year-old Boguslaw Ogrodnik of Poland competed in the 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim on July 23rd. The trio also completed their quests to complete the Triple Crown

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Starting tomorrow, Joseph Heß studies hard as a Ph.D. student at Technische Universität Chemnitz. But he is taking some time to explore his native Germany during his summer break. Heß plans to swim down the Elbe, 620 km from the Czech border with Germany to Hamburg, Germany in 10

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Red Bull has frequently supported the sport of open water swimming – from sponsoring Stephen Redmond on history’s first Oceans Seven triumph to competitive ocean swims in Mexico. The Red Bull Amaphiko Academy is a relatively new platform for grassroots social entrepreneurs who want to share their experiences with

Photos ourtesy of Pablo Argüelles Cattori, Huntington Beach, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Antonio (Toño) Argüelles Díaz-González became the first Mexican and Spanish-speaking swimmer to achieve the Oceans Seven earlier today with a 13 hour 32 minute crossing of the North Channel. Following in the wake of Stephen Redmond (Ireland), Anna-Carin Nordin (Sweden), Michelle Macy (USA),