The Outdoor Swimming Society reported that they have 12 Big Jumps being held in Great Britain this season. The Big Jump is a Europe-wide river swimming day with swimmers across Europe taking the plunge in their local rivers and lakes, all at the same time on the same day. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones

Chris Dahowski announced the very unique Swim22 Endurance Challenge that will start on October 4th. The Swim22 Endurance Challenge is a four-person relay…across the Catalina Channel. 88 miles between Catalina Island and the mainland of California, 4 swimmers doing their leg one after another over a two-day period with the help of 50 crew members

Christopher Bojanowski announced the 3.5K 2 milles de Tracadie-Sheila swim in New Brunswick, Canada on July 25th. Freestylers, butterflyers, backstrokers and breaststrokers are all invited. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones

NYC Swim hosted one of its truly unique events – the 1.2K Liberty Island Swim, a complete circumnavigation around the Statue of Liberty in New York City. Bruce Brockschmidt won the event in 14:26. Next year’s event will be held in the evening so the swimmers can swim with the sun setting around the Statue.

Tomorrow is a dual state championship – with the best swimmers from the state of Ohio and the neighboring state of Kentucky where 419 athletes from both states are participating in this mid-week championship. In addition to the swimmers, a number of officials from both states have passed the Open Water Officials test and will

In addition to superstar swimmers Thomas Lurz and Keri-Anne Payne and all their elite competitors, supermodel Jodie Kidd and British TV celebrity Vernon Kay will take part in the Great London Swim on July 3rd. In a break from open water swimming’s traditionalist past, the televised Great London Swim, a mile swim in the heart

Dennis Miller, President of the Oceania Swimming Association and FINA Bureau Member responsible for open water swimming, took the promotion of the 2010 Oceania Swimming Championships to a whole different level by arranging for four days of television coverage of the races in Samoa. “I would like to thank the Australian Olympic Committee, Australian Sports

A record number of athletes – 74 in total (39 men and 25 women) – competed in the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Setubal Bay, Portugal this past Saturday where FINA President Dr. Julio Maglione started the five-loop 2K diamond-shaped course. As is typical, both the men and women swam hard for