10th Anniversary Of The Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim
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Honoka Hasegawa’s Tsugaru Channel Crossing
Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Ocean Navi, Japan. Honoka Hasegawa (長谷川ほのか in Japanese) is a 18-year-old Japanese open water swimmer who became the youngest person to cross the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan in 8 hours 31 minutes in August 2016 in 23°C water. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Hank Wise Rips A Fast Anacapa Crossing
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Hank Wise completed the second fastest crossing of the Anacapa Channel off the California coastline in 4 hours 56 minutes today. It was done in preparation for his fifth Catalina Channel crossing in November this year and a bit off the record crossing of Jim McConica in 4 hours
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1990 Capri-Napoli, A Marathon Race Like No Other
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 35th edition of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in 1990 has been a signature race for decades. But the 1990 race was a showcase event that pitted 18 swimmers against each other who ultimately became inductees – Honour Swimmers – in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Get Going With Gino Gönenç Kalganoğlu
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gino Gönenç Kalganoğlu grew up near the sea in the Turkish coastal town of Çanakkale. His multi-cultural and multi-lingual background has now led him to become an American citizen living in another coastal city of New Orleans. Along his way from Çanakkale to New Orleans, Kalganoğlu has produced and
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Ersin Aydin Swimming For The Fatherland
Ersin Aydin Swimming For The Fatherland Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I’ve done it for the Fatherland,” said Ersin Aydin [shown above in pink shirt with Emre Erdogan], a Turkish who swam in a shark cage from Turkey to Cyprus in 43 hours 20 minutes in 1973. According to Sports Illustrated in 1973, Ersin
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Beam Me Across, Scotty
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “No one has ever tried to go so far, so slowly [across the Pacific Ocean],” said escort pilot James Scott about Benoît Lecomte‘s transoceanic swim known as The Longest Swim. “There are very few ‘firsts’ left in this world, and this six-month unsupported expedition is a rare chance to
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Aquatic Capital Of American Announces Its Hall Of Famers
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Along the shores of Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California, the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games rowing basin, the Aquatic Capital of America inducted its inaugural class of Hall of Famers. Envisioned by Tom Shadden and hosted by 5-time Olympic medalist John Naber, an unprecedented celebration honored dozens of
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The Tools Of A Transpacific Stage Swim
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Benoît Lecomte swim 5,500 miles from Tokyo to San Francisco across the Pacific Ocean during The Longest Swim, he will use a variety of equipment [shown above]. His maritime science project will be anchored by a support team and researchers who will study the Plastiphere, as they try
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Be Wise In The Open Water
Courtesy of Hank Wise, Huntington Beach, California. Hank Wise is planning to do his fifth Catalina Channel crossing in November this year. The Stanford graduate completed his first crossing from Catalina-to-the-mainland in an 8 hour 7 minute crossing in 2010 and was only 34 seconds slower in a mainland-to-Catalina crossing in 8 hours 7 minutes
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