Check out the top pro triathletes – or even your average triathlete – and they usually have knock-out, dynamic, robust, colorful promotional websites. Open water swimmers like Damian Blaum, Poliana Okimoto and Maarten van der Weijden have cool and informative websites, but open water swimmers seem to be less self-promotional than their triathletes counterparts. But […]

The Telegraph reported that the London Olympic Games Organizing Committee (LOCOG) is working with British Swimming and FINA’s Technical Open Water Swimming Commmittee to improve its safety plans at the 2012 London Games 10K Marathon Swim. The Telegraph also reported that there will be an Olympic 10K Marathon Swim test event this August on the

Joseph Oakes and Gary Emich wrote a new book Open Water Swimming – Lessons from Alcatraz. Oakes and Emich wrote the book for those who are encouraged “to enjoy the wonderful feeling of success that comes from completion of the great, difficult and classic swimming challenge” of swimming from Alcatraz Island to the shoreline of

Andrew Zimmerman, the fabulously entertaining television host of Bizarre Foods, got out of his comfort zone and joined the open water swimming community in one of his recent Appetite for Life Curbside Cuisine episodes. Andrew went for a little dip (to use the words by Kevin Murphy) in San Francisco Bay’s Aquatic Park with the

In an pro-active, reasonable decision, Australia’s Swimming New South Wales’ Technical Open Water Swimming Committee developed a new Water Temperature Policy that was recently approved and announced by its Board of Directors. It is a welcomed move in the open water swimming world. The new water temperature policy can help other governing bodies and race

Mercedes Gleitze, a 1969 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, was the first Englishwoman to swim the English Channel in 1927 before and after which she had a very interesting, successful and rewarding life. In an era before modern-day aviation, Mercedes swam throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. She was born in

Swim like a turtle is not really what a lot of open water swimmers want to hear. But it is a compliment if they are talking about leatherback turtles that have been discovered by British scientists have to be able to swim for thousands of miles in a nearly perfectly straight line. Exeter University’s Centre

Open Water Wednesday welcomed International Swimming Hall of Fame and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Kevin Murphy to its online studios today. His interview is riveting, educational and frankly shocking in its frankness and uniqueness. Going for a little dip, this is the motto of Kevin Murphy. But it is tantamount to an

The Brisbane Times provided a heart-wrenching story about a remarkably brave and selfless woman in the remarkable area of Burketown in Queensland, Australia. Donna Chong sacrificed her life for her nephew as reported by the Brisbane Times here. Murrandoo Yanner explained, “She swam away from safety to rescue her five-year-old nephew who couldn’t swim and