To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Theodore Yach describes his latest rough water exploit in his 8 km swim around Cape Point. Watching the weather is a bit of a science – read obsession – for ocean swimmers in Cape Town so when I realised by Thursday evening that the weekend would be a great Robben Island to 3 Anchor Bay […]
Theodore Yach Making A Point About The Cape Read More »
The Olmsted Brothers designed New York City’s Central Park, one of the world’s greatest urban parks on Manhattan Island. On the other side of America on the West Coast, they also designed another urban gem in Seattle: Seward Park. Within the view of this historic landmark in Seattle, swimmers and triathlete can see the majestic
Rounding The Horn Of Seward In Seattle Read More »
Way back in the 19th century, Paolo Petroli completed the first crossing of Lago Maggiore, a large lake that borders Switzerland and Italy. His feat continues to be memorialized. Claudio Bottene, Presidente GTAL – Gruppo Traversate Acque Libere A.S.D., announced the upcoming Traversata di Nuoto Intra–Laveno-Cerro (Crossing of Lake Maggiore, Intra-Laveno-Cerro) on July 13th. “We
The Italian Summer In Traversata di Nuoto Intra–Laveno-Cerro Read More »
David Yudovin, an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and a candidate for inclusion in the International Swimming Hall of Fame, continues to do unprecedented channel crossings around the world in his 60’s. Yesterday, one of the world’s most prolific channel adventurers completed another tough crossing. This time, it was a
David Yudovin Goes 3 For 3 In Cape Verde Read More »
Eddie Spelling is working to bring English Channel swimming to the home, school, and office. With his Live Channel Swimming Viewer, Spelling is enabling family, friends, and fans to watch individual and relay channel attempts taking place in real-time. From the warmth and comfort on land, viewers can track the course of swimmers as their
Eddie Spelling Brings Channel Swimming To The Home Read More »
After reading a variety of analyses and comments on the 2013 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim where fewer than half of the swimmers finished (read one comprehensive example here on Freshwater Swimmer), it is clear how advanced the sport of open water swimming has become. Every year, NYC Swim conducts careful analyses of the tides around
Nothing Is Guaranteed In The Open Water Read More »
Race director Vicko Šoljan and Janez Maroević provided photos of the all-time winners of the Faros Maratón from the 1970’s on in a beautiful collage shown on left. They also provided the fastest times at the Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championship between 1976 and 2011. Alexander Studzinski of Germany and Linsy Heister of Netherlands
All-time Winners Of The Faros Maratón Read More »
Love is in the air…and in the open water. When two people are passionately in love, either because they are in the initial throngs of courtship or because they have spent decades together in the bands of matrimony, there are telltale signs of their emotional bonds and sincere feelings for one another. When these two
Finding True Love In The Open Water Read More »
It was a very difficult day last week between Capri and Naples in Italy at the amateur 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli (Capri-Napoli International Swimming Crossing Competition). With winds viciously across the sea and whipping up whitecaps while the sun was setting, the race was called off at 8 pm for safety reasons. Italian
Paolo Meglio, The Marathon Man Read More »
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The notorious Tsugaru Current turned its back on yet another accomplished marathon swimmer this late evening in northern Japan. Brad McVetta, a Triple Crown swimmer with successful swims across the English Channel and the Catalina Channel, and around Manhattan Island, struggled across the calm 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel for
The Tsugaru Current Runs Strong Unpredictably Read More »