Dougie Fitzsimmons is a new open water swimmer from Elderslie, Scotland. SWIMMING EXPERIENCES: I was only a recreational holiday swimmer, then completed a weekends ‘Total Immersion’ swimming course. After meeting Robert I commenced outdoor swimming at Bardowie Loch with Vigour Events. Have been swimming with them for one season, including winter swims. Am now comfortable […]

<i>Photo courtesy of <a href=”http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=Josef_K%C3%B6berl”target=”_blank”>Josef Köberl</a>, <a href=”http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=Hintertuxer_Gletscher”target=”_blank”>Hintertuxer Gletscher</a>, Austria</i>. <br><br/> The year 2018 saw an incredible number of outstanding swims by outstanding swimmers guided by passionate volunteers and governed by experienced administrators and coaches all over the world. The athletes proved the bar in all the various niches of open water swimming continues to

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Got it. There are still swimmers or relays who swim in various bodies (e.g., Catalina Channel), but they are not looking for official sanctioning or even observers. Some of them are trying to raise money for local charities and they see the sanctioning fee as cutting into their donation

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Celebrating 10 Years of Swimming the Kingdom 80 Swims – 764.8 Miles As 2018 comes to a close, we are celebrating 10 years of organized, supported, amateur, open water swimming in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We started with the 1, 3, and 10-mile distances

Week 20, courtesy of Great British Swim, Margate, UK. Ross Edgley is closing in on his goal for the Great British Swim after 133 days of stage swimming. At this time, it appears his unprecedented 3,218 km circumnavigation stage swim around Great Britain will be completed safely and as planned – more or less. Red

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