Swim in the desert in the oasis established by DCB Adventures. DCB Adventures set its 2011 Arizona Open Water Swim Series dates: Swim 1 on April 30th in Saguaro Lake, Swim 2 on May 14th in Lake Pleasant Marina, Swim 3 on September 17th in Saguaro Lake, Swim 4 on October 15th in Lake Pleasant […]

Olympian Mark Warkentin‘s interview on Open Water Wednesday is now posted online here. After finishing 8th in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he was admittedly not satisfied with his performance. But real life called and his son was soon born. He retired and started coaching. However, the allure of the

Olympian Mark Warkentin of Santa Barbara will appear on an upcoming episode of Open Water Wednesday where he shares a variety of interesting observations from the 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, his 28.5-mile race against the English Channel record holder Petar Stoychev around Manhattan Island and his road back after his un-retirement decision. Mark and

The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim will be held on August 9-10 in Hyde Park in London. 25 men and 25 women will line up on the starting pontoon in front of a live TV audience and thousands of spectators. The selection process for those 50 elite open water swimmers begins this weekend in New Zealand’s

Leif Renholm and adventurous swimmers from Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, USA and Sweden looking for a different type of swim will be going to Luleå, Sweden in early July to participate in the 1.5K and 3K Luleå Midnight Classic. “Join us

The website for the 2011 U.S. Masters Swimming National 25K Championships and the 15K and 20K relays will soon go live. “The course is a 5K counter-clockwise loop in a large recreational reservoir. The course is laid out entirely in an idle zone, so boat traffic is not a problem and the residents support and

Wayne Evans set a record in the 14°C (57.2°F) waters at the 1.9K Lake Te Anau crossing this weekend. His time of 22:42 water on Saturday morning came on the back of his scorching summer of fast pool swimming, but it also came as a pleasant surprise. “I couldn’t quite believe it when I got

Somewhere after Sam Sheppard (second-straight victory in 12:42) and Harriet Brown (three-peat in 13:03) defended their titles at the 31st annual 1.2K Pier to Pub race in Lorne, Australia and somewhere in the middle of the 4,300-strong pack of swimmers, a bunch of Sharkbait swam shoulder-to-shoulder with their fellow open water swimmers…again. Sharkbait is the

Bruce Wigo of the International Swimming Hall of Fame is “taking the great step in the right direction,” says Sid Cassidy, former chairman of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. “For elite swimmers feel that the Swim Safety Device is not even there. You can train point-to-point, keep all your necessities in there, keep