Over the past decade, the RCP Tiburon Mile has been an event where great pool swimmers like Brooke Bennett and Ous Mellouli have competed head-to-head with the world’s best open water swimmers. In some years, a few of the Olympic pool swimmers have won the US$10,000 first place award, but over last several years, the […]

China named its 165-member squad for the FINA Swimming World Championships in Shanghai and includes a full squad of 12 open water swimmers. “We will send 117 athletes and 48 officials to take part in the Shanghai Worlds. Our swimmers will take part in all the events at the World Championships,” said Li Hua, director

Nearly every marathon swimmer understands and appreciates the support they receive from their family, friends and co-workers during the months leading up to their swims. Sacrifices are not only made by the athlete, but also by their spouses, children, parents and significant others. It is truly a team effort for a sport that drives people

The Rottnest Channel Swim Association was inducted as an Honor Organization in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies at the United Nations. The Rottnest Channel Swim Association has conducted over two decades of 19.7K solo and relay crossing of the Rottnest Channel in Western Australia and is truly one of the world’s greatest

Celeste Jacroux of CROWS – Colorado Represents Open Water Swimming – crafted a clever haiku: Triathletes bewareYour sleek and shiny wetsuitHas no GPS Right, left, right, left, rightI chart my course to avoidOops, swam over you Rest on the sandbarGazing out to the far sideLeave it to swimmers Hot mid-summer daysChatfield is warm bathwaterYet there

First, Facebook messages started to report that the Serpentine has reached 20°F (68°C). Then, the London Evening Standard reported that Serpentine’s poisonous algae puts 2012 London Olympics events in jeopardy. According to the publication, “…tests have found blue-green algae in the lake…swimmers are being warned they may suffer skin rashes, eye irritation, vomiting, diarrhea and

The attack on Mike Spalding during his Alenuihaha Channel swim from the island of Hawaii to Maui in the state of Hawaii by a cookiecutter shark was the focus of a study co-authored by researchers including Randy Honebrink of the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, Robert Buch of the Florida Program for Shark Research at

Bruckner Chase is helping out at the Special Olympics World Summer Games, providing much-appreciated assistance to the open water swimmers who have gathered from around the world in Athens, Greece. But in swimming around the Aegean Sea during his down time, it has been evident how few fish and other marine life exist along the