Stanley Popovich provides his advice on how individuals can manage their worries in the open water: When an open water swimmer is out in a lake or ocean, fear can play a large role in their success – and safety. Here is a brief list of techniques that an open water swimmer can use to […]

The European Space Agency, in cooperation with Indra, a Madrid-based company, launched a satellite that measures ocean salinity last November. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity measuring system took ten years to develop and icludes hardware and software on ground stations and in data processing centers that receives data from the satellite. The satellite receives

Open water swimming will be a demonstration sport at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. Athletes from 18 countries will compete in the first 1.5K Open Water Swimming event held off the coast of the City of Marathon. What an appropriate venue to hold an open water swim. Copyright © 2010

Open water swimmers can help the ocean when they make reservations on Expedia’s new travel website. Click on Project Kaisei and Project Kaisei receives 8% of all reservations at no cost to you. Kaisei means ‘Ocean Planet’ in Japanese. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source

This past August, 2010 Miguel Vadillo of Mexico, a nominee for the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, swam a bone-chilling 18 hours and 4 minutes across one of the most unpredictable and wonderful bodies of fresh water on the planet: Lake Ontario. He became the 44th person to successfully conquer the lake

Michael Zoetmulder of the Ocean Racing Series, one of the largest beachfront events in Africa in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, announced the television coverage of Season 6. The race days are held on every other Sunday mornings throughout the South African summer and include the Dis-Chem 1K and 3K ocean swim. The Season 6

Andrew Dampf of The Associated Press wrote an article about how no pool world swimming records could be set this year, for the first time since FINA has been keeping records in 1908. Over 100 years and no world records were set for the first time ever – entirely due to the use of the

EffectSports lines its open water swim courses with some massive turn buoys. Great to see from the water and onshore. These buoys enable the race sponsors to gain additional visibility and on-the-water signage that works well with still photography or videos of the race. Cylindrical, circular or sausage types: EffectSports knows its large buoys help