Cow Lau On Cold Half
Photos from the 2016 Cold Half Extreme Marathon Swim in Hong Kong by Cow Lau. See here.
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Where Mountains Come to Swim
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers traditionally write their books after they complete their swims, from Lynne Cox to Lewis Pugh.* But American endurance athlete Paul Lundgren takes readers into the depths and insights of his first two attempts at swimming the Sea of Cortez in his new book, Where Mountains Come to Swim.
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Nuala Moore In The Ice
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many of the ice swimming photos posted on the Daily News of Open Water Swimming are courtesy of Nuala Moore of Ireland. While she spends her time serving as a second, working in the recovery teams in the saunas, and doing photography at ice swimming events, she also has
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Open Polish Winter Swimming Championships 2016
Video courtesy of Silesia Winter Swimming, MISTRZOSTWA POLSKI W ZIMOWYM PŁYWANIU. Content courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The first International Ice Swimming Association 1 km Championship in Poland drew an impressive number of world-class swimmers. Carved out of a frozen lake, The Ice in Katowice, Poland attracted 21 athletes competed in the
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Disasters Are Our Business, Veterans Are Our Passion
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Rubicon has a tagline: Disasters are our business. Veterans are our passion. Team Rubicon is quickly deploying four rescue swimmers to Greece to conduct lifesaving operations for 15 or 22 days starting on approximately February 12th. Due to the high-risk nature of the deployment, applicants must have completed
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Where An Olympic Marathon Swimmer Eats
Courtesy of Yasunari Hirai, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers are known for their self-discipline and self-control. Hour after hour, day after day, month after month, year after year, swimming get up early and sometimes do double workouts – with loads of dryland training and early nights and sacrifice with intense discipline 24/7/365. But take them to
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Lending A Hand In The Open Water
Mankind regularly eats, hunts, kills, harvests, destroys and culls marine life in its various forms around the world. But sometimes, some humans also can be helpful and kind to marine life. The video above is one such example.
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Adam Torrens, Absolutely Terrified About Peak And Pond
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are certain combinations which are very tough to do in the same calendar year: *Ironman triathlon + Ice Mile *English Channel crossing + Olympic 10K Marathon Swim *North Channel crossing + Badwater ultra-marathon run *warm-water river stage swim + Ice Mile But the English Channel + Mount Everest
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Chloe Harris Faces Foveaux
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Foveaux Strait (Māori: Te Ara a Kiwa) separates Stewart Island, New Zealand’s third largest island, from the South Island way down in the Southern Hemisphere. The strait is a rough and often treacherous stretch of water. Between the years 1998 and 2012, there were zero crossings, but a total
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Dave Kelsheimer Honored At FINA’s Soirée des Etoiles
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dave Kelsheimer is the coach of Olympian and 10 km world champion Jordan Wilimovsky. Both Wilimovsky and Coach Kelsheimer were honored by FINA at its Soirée des Etoiles in Doha, Qatar last week. Coach Kelsheimer does some innovative work in conditions where and when he can find them. Living
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