The Press Association reported that the charity relay for Cancer Research UK with its famous relay members, including Ronan Keating, Jenny Frost, Pamela Stephenson, Jason Bradbury and Steve Parry, is now about 21 miles into their 56-mile swim from Holyhead in Anglesey, North Wales, to Dublin, Ireland across the Irish Sea. While the tides and […]

Jason Pintinalli, Event Coordinator of the Tom Wear Memorial Swim, announced that today is the last day for discount fees for its September 10th race in New Jersey’s largest lake. “The 1-2 mile Tom Wear Memorial Swim in Lake Hopatcong honors the K9 Heroes of 9/11 at our third annual Tom Wear Memorial Swim. This

Dimitris Kakalikas announced the athletes for the 30K ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟΣ ΟΜΙΛΟΣ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΤΑΣ «Ο ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ» (Nautical Club of Kalamata «POSEIDON») in Kalamata, Greece. On September 3rd, the 23rd Open Water Swimming Marathon Kalamata – Koroni will showcase two special attempts. Manyoki Attila from Hungary will try for a second time to swim a triple crossing of the

Record-setting Elizabeth Fry of Connecticut, U.S.A. set another world record by becoming the oldest person to complete a two-way crossing of the English Channel on August 20th. Elizabeth added to her world record collection (which includes the records for the fastest “reverse-direction” circumnavigation of Manhattan Island and the 35-mile double Ederle Swim between New York

Roger Allsopp, who is attempting to be the oldest man to successfully swim across the English Channel, is making good progress. His up-to-date course can be seen here. “I try to focus and think about one day of absolute miserable. Training has I think gone well and I am now as ready as I can

Cowabunga. A massive surf swell is expected to hit Southern California over the next several days, peaking on Saturday. Beaches along the Los Angeles County coastline may see surf ranging from 5-9 feet. Some Orange County beaches, which are more south, may see surf upwards of 17 feet. As every experienced open water swimmer knows,

Shaun Anderson and Jayson Jackson continue to do tremendous good in this world. Their latest project, International Water Safety Day, is on May 15, 2012 and is meant to raise awareness of the drowning pandemic to the public. International Water Safety Day is an initiative by Diversity in Aquatics to to help reduce drowning worldwide.

It is marathon. A long way. Nearly 2 hours of swimming. But it came down to the final strokes at the men’s Dutch Open Water Championships that were organized by OZ & PC De Warande from Oosterhout (The Netherlands) in corporation with the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB). It was a very crowded calendar this