Courtesy of Mariel Hawley Dávila, Cook Strait, New Zealand. Mariel Hawley Dávila will attempt her final channel of the Oceans Seven. She explains, “The Cook Strait crossing has several meanings for me. It means a lot in terms of what life is for me… each [Oceans Seven] crossing has made me so aware of the […]

Courtesy of Wave One Open Water, Potomac River, National Harbor, Maryland. At the intersection of Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia in the Potomac River, 150 swimmers jump off a riverboat water taxi and swim 2.3 km to the National Harbor beach lagoon at the 9th Annual Washington’s Crossing: Swim Across the Potomac on June 2nd.

Courtesy of P.W. Gallaudet, 1818. In J. Frost’s book, The Art Of Swimming that was published in 1818, he included a passage by Benjamin Franklin in which he pondered about crossing the English Channel: “When I was a boy, I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite; and, approaching the bank of a

In J. Frost’s book, The Art Of Swimming that was published in 1818, a passage written by Benjamin Franklin included a description of hand paddles and fins. “When I was a boy, I made two oval pallets, each about 10 inches long, and six broad, with a hole for the thumb, in order to retain

J. Frost was a long-time swimming teacher in Nottingham, England. He wrote The Art Of Swimming that was published in 1818 by P.W. Gallaudet. The book is described as “a series of practical instructions on an original and progressive plan, by which the art of swimming may be readily attained, with every advantage of power

Courtesy of Fazlul Kabir, Shahpori Island, Bangla Channel, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Extreme Bangla and Shwaroz Adventure jointly organize the 16.1 Bangla Channel Swimming since its inception in 2006. This year was a record year. Fazlul Kabir is one of the pioneers of the Fortune Bangla Channel Swimming, a 16.1 km race across the Bangla

Courtesy of WOWSA, San Francisco, California. Talk about expanding one’s boundaries and areas of influence. Kimberley Chambers was once a ballerina at her home in New Zealand. Then, she became a rower at University of California Berkeley and then started to work in Silicon Valley with Adobe. She got hurt and then became an International

Courtesy of Nippon Television Network, Cebu Island, Philippines. A Japanese TV program “Itte Q” (The Quest) on Nippon Television in Japan will broadcast five Japanese television personalities doing a sea swim starting on Cebu Island, a crossing of the Cebu Strait from Cabilao Island to Argao on Cebu Island in the Philippines. Christina Timmons explains,

2012 Olympic marathon swimmer Alex Meyer winning 2018 race Courtesy of Charles River Swimming Club, race start in the Charles River, Boston, Massachusetts. Registration opens today for the annual Charles River One Mile Swim in Boston on June 15th. Founded by Frans Lawaetz from the Virgin Islands and Ulla Hester from Germany, the duo held