Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted 18 new members last week. The list of inducted members included seven swimmers, three water polo players, two divers, two coaches, two open water swimmers, one synchro swimmer and one photographer. The athletes and contributors were inducted into the hall on August […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith is organizing the Team STS Turkey Tour at the Bosphorous Strait Swim & Gallipoli Swim. The tour is open to only 100 Australians and New Zealanders. Option 1 includes the Bosphorous Swim in Turkey. Option 2 includes the Gallipoli Swim Tour (no race) Copyright © 2016 by

Edgewater Park, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealan Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We had only seen the islands from a distance and did not know exactly what we had to face. We had to hike down a sea cliff after traveling about an hour by train and taxi. By the time we reached the sea and started, the tidal flow was

Off North Carolina: A sand tiger shark has plenty of company in Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. If you’re game for swimming alongside whale sharks, then you probably already have Discovery Channel’s Shark Week (starting Sunday) on your calendar. Andy DeHart of the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C., and adviser for Discovery share some adrenaline-generating encounters

What started out two summers ago as a group of guys swimming together in the Long Beach Yacht Club pool is quickly becoming a cultural phenomena that extends outside the pool, into the ocean and now into the local community. Seven local swimmers, known as The Dawn Patrol, will swim the Catalina Channel this summer