Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anthony McCarley and Donal Buckley took a nearly straight line from Spain to Morocco – and took only 4 hours 26 minutes cross the Strait of Gibraltar on a tandem swim. “It was rough and tough,” reported McCarley as he added his third Oceans Seven crossing (after the English […]

Photos courtesy of Cimarron Anderson, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Arizona. “As a swimmer, I want to finish every swim I attempt,” describes Kent Nicholas. “The S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge is very difficult swim, with Mother Nature’s deck of cards dealing a different hand at every lake.” The S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge is set in the rugged American southwest

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Los Cabos Open Water Challenge is a 2 km, 7.2 km and 14.4 km marathon swim in San José del Cabo on Baja California, Mexico. The 14.4 km swim is held along an out-and-back course from Playa Palmilla to Playa Puerto Los Cabos and return to Playa Palmilla,

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Tsukuyo was an all-female relay that successfully completed an English Channel two-way crossing between England and France. The team took 22 hours to complete the double crossing, negative-splitting the 42-mile swim in 11 hours 7 minutes on the first leg and 10 hours 53 minutes on the second

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Angel Yanagihara spoke at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland where another presenter included Professor Tom Doyle. The talks by Dr. Yanagihara and Dr. Doyle were aimed at educating open water swimmers about the stinging mechanism of jellyfish and ways to effectively treat jellyfish

Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. The 2017 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held in a beautiful converted Chapel in Windsor, UK last month. The total attendance of 88 included the largest gathering of honorees (24) plus official representatives from 7 Honor Organizations. Ned Denison described, “They

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anthony McCarley and Donal Buckley will most likely take off on their tandem swim across the Strait of Gibraltar on May 1st according to the tides and current weather predictions. The duo’s window is up to 10 days to complete the swim from Spain to Morocco. To follow the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming: Reflections for Zen Seekers – Mindfulness Series is a new book written by Tessa Wardley. The Ivy Press describes the fourth book written by the member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and a former senior water ecologist and policy