In researching about Diana Nyad‘s upcoming swim between Cuba and Florida, scheduled for next week, The Daily News of Open Water Swimming talked with Skip Storch who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2009 and learned his record-setting double-circumnavigation and triple-circumnavigation of Manhattan Island came at the end of a […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Teenager Ling Kou-yen and Deborah Kuo reported from Taipei that Xiamen – Kinmen Swim between Taiwan and China in 1:34:0, only three seconds ahead of Taiwan’s Lin Yange of China. Hong Kong’s here. here. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming understands the race organizers really want to make

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On August 22nd, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims, the Damme–Brugge Open Water Swim, celebrated its 100th swim this year. Held in the freshwater Canal Hoeke – Sluis in Belgium, the race is a 5 km straight-line course from Damme to Brugge where athletes can swim

The North (Irish) Channel has them. The Kaieiewaho Channel has them (between Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii). They are all over the place in each ocean of the world. But several people have tried to cross Monterey Bay, south of San Francisco, and the jellyfish have stopped them. The massive amounts of venom were just

The Night Train Swimmers are teaming up with three outstanding Mexican endurance swimmers to attempt a non-stop open water swimming relay world record. The swim, billed as the Mexican American Unity Swim 2010, is expected to take an estimated 60 hours. Vito Bialla, Matthew Davie and Phil Cutti from the San Francisco Bay area and

The 1.5K and 3K Acapulco Grand Prix is sandwiched between the opening and closing days of the Central American and Caribbean Aquatic Sports Convention (Convención Centroamericana Y Del Caribe De Las Especialidades Acuáticas) held between August 26-29. Ing. Kiril Todorov, President of the Mexican Swimming Federation, is hosting a number of speakers including Dr. Jim

Bruckner Chase is respected far and wide, from the East to West Coast of the United States, for his strong commitment to the sport, for his inspirational messages, the enviromental themes he champions and the charity swims he undertakes like his Monterey Bay Solo Marathon Swim that started at 4 am Pacific Time this Tuesday

Go Swim produced an open water swimming series with America’s most successful – and unselfish – elite marathon swimmer over the last few years, Fran Crippen. Fran, a multi-time national champion and world championship medalist, explains and demonstrates his hints and recommendations for fast, efficient freestyle in the open water – how to stay long

Charlie Gravett of the Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club, situated in the English Channel approximately 14 miles (22K) from Normandy, France and approximately 100 miles (162K) south of Great Britain, reported that the slots for doing a 70K solo circumnavigation around Jersey are all reserved until at least 2012. The 70K course takes swimmers along

David Handley reported that this year’s version of the Fiji Swims had super fast conditions with fair to strong winds and swells behind (pushing) the swimmers. But, open water being open water, there were always obstacles thrown in. “The swells were not directly behind the swimmers, so some of the swimmers went way off course,”