Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the Best Organised Open Water Swims that were recognized at the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association ceremonies in Belfast, the Wild Atlantic Swim, Liffey Swim, and WOTS stood out. The fifth Wild Atlantic Big Swim was a sea swim from Arranmore Island to Burtonport in Ireland in August […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the hunt. The RV Hesperides tows along a net designed to skim the ocean surface, catching floating plastic particles (inset). A recent study found that 99% of plastic in the ocean is unaccounted for. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “We can’t account for 99%

I WOULD LIKE INFORM YOU THAT THIS YEAR AUGUST 1 ST WILL BE ORGANIZED 6 TH FINA OPEN WATER GRAND PRIX WORLD CUP 2010 SABAC SWIM MARATHON. ALL INFORMATIONS AND ALL FORMS WITH ENTRY FORM YOU CAN TO FIND IN OFFICIAL FINA WEB SITE ON THE OPEN WATER SWIMMING GRAND PRIX CALENDAR RACES 2010. PLEASE

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Varne Ridge Channel Swim Park, owned by Evelyn and David Frantzeskou, in Folkestone, England is one. So is the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki Beach on Oahu. These are two examples of outstanding hotels for open water swimmers where good food and fun as well as proximity to

Thank you very much for your hard work and planning. It is very clear that the MSF community does not recognize swims where the swimmers intentionally draft off the wake of a boat. It is most likely that any world record attempt or swim where there is intentional drafting will be heavily criticized and not

Hey Steven, Paul Newsome here – how are you getting on? I was just at the Australian National 10km championships where one of the guys we’ve been doing some GPS tracking work with (Rhys Mainstone) was 2nd over the line (to Richard Weinberger – awesome swim by him!) and first Australian to take the title.

Batalla de Rande Nado Courtesy of Gavin Browne, Cork, Ireland. 61-year-old Ned Denison of Ireland will be one of the few swimmers without a wetsuit in the 27 km Batalla de Rande Swim that is held between the Cies Islands  and the small island of San Simón island in Galicia in the northwest of Spain.

Terence Bell Pioneers His Way Around Kaua’iCourtesy of WOWSA, Kaua’i, Hawaii.Terence Bell, an Australian aquapreneur, completed his 14-day stage swim on July 1st to become the first person in history to circumnavigate 160 km around the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. The entire swim took in 51 hours 57 minutes over the 2-week period.  Ultimately, he made his