At the International Swimming Hall of Fame and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies on May 9th, an amazing group of aquatic athletes and many accomplished marathon swimmers will gather in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the 2010 induction ceremonies, from Paul Asmuth and Kevin Murphy to Christopher Guesdon, Penny Palfrey, James Pittar, Aleksey Akatyev, […]

Kelsey Jacobsen, an AmeriCorps Member for Coastal Zone Management for the Sitka Conservation Society in Alaska, is helping organize the 10K Sitka Sound Adventure Swim in Sitka, Alaska. The August 8th race is a, simply described, an adventure. The race can be done solo or as a 2- or 4-person relay, but the water temperature

Can you swim 2 miles across the largest lake in the planet? That is the question that Scott Armstrong and Larry Johnson ask the participants in the growing Point to LaPoint Swim participants every year in August as they traverse across Lake Superior. The August 7th Point to LaPoint Swim to Madeline Island is 2

The annual 3K Kenting Sea Swim is coming up on April 25th in the beautifully tropical Kenting National Park in the southernmost part of Taiwan. The mass participation swim is a 1.5K straight out to the Pacific Ocean and back where communal enjoyment in tropical waters and post-swim festivities – not competition – are the

In a a new twist on the sport of open water swimming, Michael Zoetmulder created quite an event at the MTN Nelson Mandela Bay Splash Festival in Port Elizabeth, South Africa this weekend. After hosting the inaugural Ocean Racing Series World Championships and the 7K Bell Buoy Challenge, a totally new event, the King of

Philippe Dubreuil of Canada competed for Canada at two World Swimming Championships, a Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and a Pan American Games, always representing his country well. He has recently graduated from Sherbrooke University with a Masters in Psychology and is in Quebec City working to improve team dynamics. Back at the 2009 USA Swimming

Fashion, hair, cars, makeup, home interiors … humans like color. Humans enjoy color. Humans need color. Humans LOVE color. And blueseventy is leading the charge to bring color to open water swimming world. With the fabric suppliers pushing the envelope and working on the nano level to create more colorful fabrics, it is only a

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Andreas of the New Jersey Race Club announced the Triple Crown series of the New Jersey Race Club, a series of 1-mile ocean swims along the . With hundreds of swimmers ranging from beginners to top-level college swimmers, ages from 9 to an incredible 87 year old, there are