Angela Tate PT, PhD, Cert. MDT of Arcadia University and Shana Harrington, PT, PhD of University of North Florida are conducting a survey regarding training practices for swimmers. “We want to make recommendations for safe training in order to reduce shoulder pain and injury. Coaches of age group, high school, and college teams as well […]

We hit oncoming currents, waves and marine life en route. The unexpected happens and navigating one’s course in life is not always straightforward, simple or what it first appears to be. When we stand on shore and gaze forward towards the horizon, sometimes we do not know – or cannot imagine – how we will

The California company Method has taken another innovative approach to cleaning up the environment. This time, the company used green chemistry to turn trash that is swirling in the Pacific Ocean into bottles. Working with Envision Plastics, Method collects and recycles the debris that floating in the ocean. Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, co-founders of

B. Chris Brewster, President of the United States Lifesaving Association and Vice President of the International Life Saving Federation has a great motto that he shares on every email: “If you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth,” attributed to professional baseball great

Some studies indicate that beetroot may be good for endurance athletes. A beetroot juice study conducted by Exeter University in the U.K. found that cyclists who drank a half liter of beetroot juice several hours before workout were able to ride 20% longer than those who drank a placebo blackcurrent juice. Kathleen Doheny reported in

A gyre is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis Effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, which determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl (torque). The term gyre can be used to refer to any type of vortex

Diana Nyad will visit the Open Water Source studio to tell about what went into her Xtreme Dream, what happened out there between Cuba and Florida, and what she learned along the way. This webinar is free and will certainly prove to be an enlightening, entertaining hour hour full of inspiration, hope and courage. Diana

Different swimmers do different things to deal with the dreaded blue bottles, box jellyfish, sea wasps, stingers, Portuguese man o war and moon jellyfish. Stings from these and a few other species (Chironex fleckeri, Carukia barnesi and Malo kingi) are extremely painful and can be sometimes fatal to humans. While the countermeasures used by swimmers

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Coolangatta Gold on the Gold Coast is Round 1 of the Body Science Great Australian Swim Series on September 25th. Olympic 10K Marathon Swimmer (2008 and 2012) and Australian Iron Man champion Ky Hurst is the founder of the Series and will be swimming in races on the day,

The 30th Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough H2O Swim is back with its beautiful 7K (4.33 miles) course and dry humor. Entry forms to the U.S. Masters Swimming race, hosted by Jim Anderson on December 4th, can be requested here. The race starts and finishes on Kaimana Beach, near the Diamond Head