Bruce Gordon completed the first cross-lake swim of Lake Coeur d’Alene in Utah. “It was right around 19 miles. 21Ten.com Lifeshotz sponsored my swim,” explained Bruce about the unprecedented swim. With hundreds of thousands of lakes around the world, it is inevitable that more and more unprecedented swims and world records will be set. A […]

How far is the San Pedro Channel, otherwise known as the Catalina Channel? This map shows the swim distance as 20.2 statute miles or 17.55 nautical miles. The absolutely shortest distance (from Arrow Point on Catalina Island to Long Point on Palos Verdes on the California coast) is 19.6 statute miles or 17.03 miles. However,

The 36th Faros Marathon, a popular international marathon swim, was won by its 2009 champion, Alexander Studzinski on August 27th. The 16K swim starts in the harbor of Stari Grad, heads out to sea for 8K in the Adriatic to the tip of the Kabal Peninsula before returning to the finish on the island of

Personable, impossibly positive and ever-energetic Lynn Kubasek added another feather to her swim cap with her latest solo swim in the Santa Barbara Channel with a 7:08 crossing from Anacapa Island. Fog and an ocean calm were offset by jellyfish and salps the warm 66°-68° waters. Besides the numerous stings that Lynn endured while being

At last night’s pre-race ceremonies of the International Masters Open Water Swim in Yumigahama Beach in Izu, Japan, a wonderfully ornate float replicating the opening of Japan by Commodore Matthew Perry was paraded in front of the festive crowds. The float represented the Black Ships, the fleet led by Commodore Perry in the 1850s, that

Like nearly every human endeavor and sport, there seem to be frequent generational differences in opinions regarding equipment, technology, competition, promotional and rules. In the open water swimming world, from California to Copacabana, stand-up paddlers are becoming more and more prevalent as escorts and safety personnel on open water courses. Their enthusiasm and support of

Open Water Source will host a webinar live from the RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco on September 17th: Women In The Water Webinar. The one-hour Women In The Water webinar will start at 4 pm San Francisco time (7 pm New York time). The co-hosts will talk about the absolutely wonderful year that women

Yesenia Cabrera of Guatemala (on August 9th) and Michael ‘Murph’ Renford of Australia (on September 6th) joined the elite members of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming by both separately completing their third leg in the Catalina Channel this summer season. They both expressed great pride in finally achieving this rare open water swimming

Keo Nakama, a world-class athlete in three sports and an Honor Swimmer in both the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (inducted in 1967) and the International Swimming Hall of Fame (inducted in 1975) passed away yesterday in Hawaii. Keo was known in the open water world as the first person to swim from the