Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be many inspirational speakers and great marathon swimmers from the past 50 years at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City in June. Among the accomplished swimmers will be South African extreme adventurer Ram Barkai, shown coming out of ice-cold water in Patagonia. Barkai […]

There will be many inspirational speakers and great marathon swimmers from the past 50 years at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City in June. Among the accomplished swimmers will be Dr. Penny Dean who once held the English Channel record for 19 years (7:40) and still holds the Catalina Channel record

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Hill of the Triathlon Club of San Diego announced the Tiki Swim and a special discount code for the open water swimming community. The US$5 discount code for the September swim is OWSB11 . “Distances will be 1.2 miles and 2.4 miles in either a swimsuit or wetsuit,”

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase of California will visit American Samoa to raise awareness of the impact mankind has on the oceans. The passionate advocate of the oceans partnered with the National Marine Sanctuaries to complete swim expeditions at national Marine Sanctuary sites throughout the United States. On May 14th, his first

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Melanie Price, a member of the Lake Ontario Swim Team, will attempt to swim 42.2K across Lake Ontario from Port Dalhousie to Oakville. “I started swimming wth the Lake Ontario Swim Team (LOST) a few years ago and I fell in love with open water swimming and Lake Ontario.

In a decision based on safety and its own recent recommendations, USA Swimming approved a relocation of the 2011 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships from Fort Myers to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is a change to the 82°F (28°C) waters of Ft. Lauderdale rather than the expected 87°F (31°C) waters of Ft. Myers.

Cayman Channels are the new it place in the open water world. 12 swimmers swam together from Cayman Brac to Little Cayman this past week. “It was wonderful. The conditions were perfect,” said coordinator Kate Alexander of the 5-mile inter-island channel swim. “We all made it safely and it was a straight shot across the

Extreme. Epic. Excessive. Throw out those words. Mind-boggling. Fanatical. Monomaniacal. Somehow those words also seem inadequate. “Aside from long pool swims, I’ve already logged non-stop swims in the ocean of 8 hours, 8 hours, 8 hours, 8 hours, 11 hours, 10 hours, 9 hours, 13 hours, 12 hours and 11 hours…with many more to come