No one will notice. No one will take your stuff. No one will prey on innocent open water swimmers. In most parts of the world most of the time, this situation is true. Swimmers drive, carpool, bike, walk or take public transportation to their favorite or regular open water swimming venues. They shed their clothes, […]

Cox, Donal, Redmond and Pugh, How do they do it? I have no clue. Frigid winds, clouds and sleet, Painful from the head right down to the feet. The water is so cold, liquid ice if you will, Like piercing arrows Swimmers in Boston and Cape Town, hardened souls all, Swimming so wellCopyright © 2012

Durante 55 años, el Descenso a Nado de la Ría de Navia ha sido capaz de llegar a los corazones y las mentes del pueblo de Navia, en el norte de España. Durante 55 de los 55 años, Juan Ignacio Martínez Fernández-Villamil o, para abreviar, Moreno, ha sido el corazón y el alma del Descenso.

A total of 9,147 individuals (unique viewers) watched some portion of the live streaming of Friday’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim world record attempt according to the certified statistics on UStream. While Mark Warkentin and Petar Stoychev, two Olympic swimmers, failed to break the record held by Shelley Taylor-Smith, Captain Tim Johnson, who provided the navigation

Open water swimmers can be quite talkative on terra firma. Trapped in the marine environment, It was truly an honor to be in the company of so many impressive athletes. Congrats on putting together such a great event both at the Queen Mary & Marine stadium. I had some significant muscle soreness on my left

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 Paralympic Games concluded yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. The 2016 Paralympics featured 152 Swimming events, compared to the 34 Swimming and Open Water events at the Olympics last month. In total, 36 nations garnered at least 1 medal, with 25 garnering at least 1 gold medal. Final

There have been a total of 2289 Channel swims, 208 of which have been part of multiple-way swims. 1081 swimmers have completed a total of 1500 solo swims. Approximately 3961 swimmers have taken part in 651 relay swims and 138 special category swims. 64.4% of swimmers have been male (solo, relay and special category). 35.6%

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