Must be a fun article. Agree with everything aside the North Channel. Not sure where the Rum and Coke from? A Guinness or a Taliskar may be more suitable 🙂 Kind Regards Ram Barkai iCE Capital (Pty) Ltd. Work: Studio 1, Central Parade, Victoria Road, Camps Bay, Cape Town, RSA Postal: PO Box 32448, Camps […]

A review of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductees shows a large number of masters swimmers including such renowned athletes like Paul Asmuth, a seven-time world professional marathon swimming champion, and James Kegley who still holds the longest held record in United States Masters Swimming. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source

Courtesy of Gregory S. Rotole, D.D.S. of Huntington Beach, California. In the pool, the body dolphin – also known as the fifth stroke – is used off the turns in pool swimming for maximum speed and efficiency. Analogously, adaptation of the body dolphin to open water and distance events permits the swimming of the other

Back in the 20th century, professionals in pool swimming were strongly criticized and looked down upon. Administrators, referees and athletes who had the wrong value system The Americans fiercely stick to their amateur roles with a vast majority believing that anyone who makes money in the sport is somehow doing something wrong or participating with

How to survive in a shipwreck? Here are my personal top 10… 1. Hop into a row boat (after giving the distress call on the radio) 2. Grab a life vest 3. Hang onto jetsam if a row boat or life vest are not available 4. Hope the water temperature is warm (if not, put

Courtesy of Paul Guest, Huntington Beach, California. Copyright © 2008-2019 by World Open Water Swimming Association