When swimmers cross a channel or participate in an ocean swim, they tend to most vividly remember the extremes of their swims. That is, the swimmers wax poetically about their swims over the tranquil beauty of a flat ocean especially when the sun sets or sun rises and their challenges across the roughest, toughest turbulence […]

Name: Rondi Davies Age:40 Citizenship: Australian/ United States When I started swimming: I have been swimming since I was a toddler, but I started swimming competitively at age 7. I grew up in the tropics (Papua New Guinea). Swimming was a way of life. Major pool events: I moved to Australia when I was 11

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.