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Open Water Representatives At The Highest World Aquatics Level

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The World Aquatics Bureau is the highest governing body of competitive aquatic sports that oversees open water swimming, diving, high diving, water polo, and pool swimming. The World Aquatics Bureau consists of 39 members with its President elected by the Congress, 22 continental representatives and 16 at-large representatives from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The World Aquatics Bureau very […]

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Simon Olliver Overcomes The Channel of Bones to Achieve The Oceans Seven

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Reported by Bill Goding in Hawaii. On his third attempt, Simon Olliver (61, New Zealand, MSF bio here, @simon_channelswimmer) from Christchurch completed a 45 km crossing of the Molokai Channel from Molokai Island to Oahu in Hawaii, escorted by Ivan Shigaki on August 30th in 14 hours 24 minutes on his third attempt. The courageous crossing of the Channel of Bones enabled him

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First Impressions and First Sights of the North Channel

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Wow. After landing in Dublin via a nearly 11-hour flight from LAX, I traveled to Belfast, then Bangor, and then Donaghadee in Northern Ireland. My plan is to watch Andreas Waschburger (38, Germany, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @andreaswaschburger) attempt a 35 km crossing of the North Channel from Donaghadee to Portpatrick,

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Beauty, Sadness, Mystery at the Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swimming Race

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Beauty The Turkish Olympic Committee’s annual Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swimming Race is so cool and so iconic. On the one day of the year that the Bosphorus Strait is closed to all regular marine traffic and the open water swimming community takes over, the intercontinental crossing of the Bosphorus Strait is a showcase of all

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Salvatore Cimmoni Crosses Molokai in his Swimming in the Seas of the Globe

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“I faced strong winds and very large ocean swells, but I made it,” said amputee Salvatore Cimmino (Italy, @salvator.cimmino) who crossed the 45 km Molokai Channel from Molokai to Oahu at Kaiser Estate near China Walls in 13 hours 27 minutes escorted by pilot Manoa Buckman (@triedtofixit_thanbrokeit_manoa). Bill Goding said, “China Walls was ruled out due to the difficulty [Salvatore

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