Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Captain Tim Johnson provided the background information for the September 10th record-breaking attempt. Mark Warkentin (shown on left above), Petar Stoychev (shown on right above), Rondi Davies and Tobey-Anne Saracino will be setting off on September 10th on a record attempt. 95 years previously the first authenticated circumnavigation of […]

Quinn Carver, Bill Goding, Brian Denaro and Jen Schumacher swam 17 miles from Kauai to Niihau, but their swim was punctuated with action rarely seen in marathon swimming world. First, there were sharks. Jen explained, “[Escort boat] Captain Don barked at us to get in close to the boat and stay there. He told us

While 60-year-old Diana Nyad makes her final preparations for her swim from Cuba to Florida, possibly towards the end of this week, she will be making history by attempting the 103-mile (165K) swim without a shark cage unlike the other swimmers in history who have attempted this swim with a shark cage. One of these

American Tristin Baxter and Australian George O’Brian both won the Junior Pan Pacific Championship 10K race off the shores of Maui, Hawaii. The event was the younger version of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships where swimmers ages 18 and younger from the USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico and Japan competed. Tristin finished in 1:58:42, well ahead

Captain Tim Johnson, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and author of the History of Open Water Marathon Swimming, brings us a slice of swimming history about one of the early pioneers of the sport: In 1904, 17-year-old Australian Annette Kellerman, enjoyed success in her early part of her career, setting

At the 22K IJsselmeermarathon Stavoren – Medemblik in the Netherlands, there is a brother-sister lock on the record book. The personable Olympic 10K Marathon Swim gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden, who was on his recovery road back from leukemia, set the record for the fastest crossing in 4 hours and 20 minutes in 2004.