Courtesy of Martin Hobbs, Lake Malawi, Africa. South African swimmer Martin Hobbs is on the 9th day of his north-to-south stage swim crossing of Lake Malawi on the borders between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. As one of the most bio-diverse freshwater lakes in the world, Hobbs is facing all kinds of issues in his 581 […]

Courtesy of Ned Denison, Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims. 59-year-old Kevin Williams of Ireland completed a 7.4 km swim from Robben Island in South Africa to achieve the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims. The 59-year-old Irishman who trains with the Tralee Bay Swimming Club previously had completed solo prison island swims from Alcatraz

Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 2016 International Swimming Hall of Fame Yearbook summed up the life and achievements of Bob Duenkel upon his retirement as well as possible: “Bob Duenkel is as much a part of the International Swimming Hall of Fame as any Honoree or display. He started

Courtesy of WOWSA, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Grand Swim Series is a series of 8 solo and relay open water swimming competitions and events organized by Dmitrii Egorov. He describes the swims as “the most difficult swims of Russia organized under my leadership; their history began in 2014. The history of the Grand Swim Series

Courtesy of Terence Bell, Venice Beach, California. Solo Swim Hawaii is a solo 144.8 km (90-mile) circumnavigation swim attempt around the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i scheduled for summer 2019 by Australian waterman and aquapreneur Terence Bell. Bell, currently residing and training in Venice Beach in Southern California, is the creator of The Ocean Lover, an

Courtesy of Lucky Meisenheimer, Lake Cane, Florida. Doc Lucky’s Golden Mile, a 1.5 km swim in Lake Cane, Florida is open to only 300 people – and it to fill in a blink of an eye if it is not already sold out. The event celebrates the 30 years of daily lake swimming in Lake

Courtesy of Randy Soler, Ceiba, Puerto Rico. In May 2018, Joel Matos Ortiz completed his first RSOT Swim Across The Caribbean. The unprecedented 80.4 km 4-island solo stage swim stretched from St. John’s to St. Thomas to Vieques to Ceiba, Puerto Rico. This coming May, Matos has even bigger, longer and tougher goals in the