Channel 4 will broadcast the British Gas Great Swim on January 23rd from 6:35 am to 7:30 am. The British Gas Great Salford Swim took place in Salford Quays – stay tuned for Britain’s biggest mass participation open water swimming series. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source

Douglas Miller (1:04.38) and Tieri Erasito (1:10.49, on left) won the 5K race at the first race on the 2011 Fiji Ocean Swim Series. Based on the series and other criteria, the swimmers are working towards a selection to the Fiji Open Water Swim Team that will participate in the 2011 Pacific Games. Alisha Dickinson

Can deep waters lead to deep thinking? Gedankenexperiment is an uncommon English words that means an experiment carried out in thought only. Gedanken means “thoughts” in German. The word was popularized by Albert Einstein, who applied gedankenexperiment to his work conceptualizing the theory of relativity. Because marathon swimming is commonly described as a mentally challenging

With the intention to help develop future generations of open water swimmers and promote the sport, FINA will establish a new Junior World Open Water Swimming Championship event beginning in 2012. These championships will have two categories: Youth races limited to athletes 14 – 16 years old and Junior races for athletes between 17 –

Howard Schartz and Beverly Ornstein photographed numerous Olympic and professional athletes, titled The Athlete. This reminds us of the fact that open water swimmers place themselves in a marine environment that is so unlike every other venue where Olympic and professional athletes compete. They alone strip themselves nearly bare and compete in a natural environment

Cara Baker won the New Zealand 5K national open water championships at the Epic Swim in New Zealand’s Lake Taupo, adding to her 10K title the day before – and the 5K and 10K titles she won last year. “The performance exceeded my expectations really. I think I am a better swimmer this year and

Are swimmers healthier than other athletes? The question was raised if any peer-review research has been conducted on the differences (if any) between the (1) life span (quantitative data) and (2) quality of life (qualitative data) of lifelong swimmers and (a) endurance athletes (runners, cyclists, triathletes) and (b) the average citizens (of any other country).

Phillip Ryan and Cara Baker won the New Zealand National Open Water 10K Championship on Lake Taupo at the multi-race Epic Swim to advance to the Australian Open Water Swimming Championships in March. The top Kiwi swimmers need to finish in the top four in Australia to qualify for the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai

Although millions of people worldwide are beginning to enjoy open water swimming, the citizens of Brighton on the east coast of England have been doing it since 1860 – coming up on 151 years of history. The founders of the Brighton Swimming Club started annual open water swims in order to learn to swim and