Courtesy of Jean Craven of Madswimmer, in a group tandem swim of 29 swimmers crossing 25 km in Lake Malawi near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia. Jean Craven is on to something. Given his varied aquatics background as a competitive swimmer, a water polo player, a biathlete, a stellar Navy diver, and a high-altitude […]

Courtesy of Darren Miller, Team Forever. John Batchelder has had quite a year so far and he has a long way to go. The Colorado swimmer started his season with the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim which he did butterfly. Then he finished seventh in the 7-mile (11.2 km) Swim Around Lido Key in Florida

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like Kate Rew, Adam Walker, Simon Murie and other aquapreneurs around the world, the Wild Swimming Brothers are taking their passion for the open water and commercializing their activities for the benefit of others. “This week we announce an exciting new collaboration with the mighty Red Bull to bring

Video courtesy of Madswimmer, Lake Malawi, Malawi near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia. The image of a solo swimmer courageously and patiently swimming across tides, currents and waves in a channel is the iconic image of marathon swimming. But an increasing number of open water swimmers are choosing to do tandem swims in point-to-point

Courtesy of LA 2024, Long Beach, California. LA 2024, the organizing committee for the proposed 2024 Los Angeles Olympic & Paralympic Games, released renderings of its Long Beach Sports Park that includes the Long Beach Waterfront where the Olympic triathlon and 10 km marathon swimming events will be held. LA 2024’s city-wide Sports Park innovation

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Macarine has had big plans for a few years now. He wants to become the first Filipino who successfully crosses the English Channel. It is an audacious goal, but one in which Macarine thinks about and trains for on a daily basis. “I am the first swimmer on