Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Zurich, Switzerland. Martyn Webster enjoyed and experienced a Barraesque year last year in 2018. The 51-year-old British, one of the World’s Top 50 Most Adventurous Swimmers, received the 2019 Barra Award for Most Outstanding Year of Marathon Swimming (all considered) from the Marathon Swimmers Federation. * On April 14th, he completed

Courtesy of Rory O’Connor, Boston, Massachusetts. The Navy SEAL Foundation Frogman Swim Series includes the original Tampa Bay Frogman Swim in Florida, the 3rd annual San Francisco Frogman Swim, and the inaugural Boston Frogman Swim that will be held June 2nd. Rory O’Connor explains, “These swims are first and foremost fundraising events with all proceeds

Courtesy of WOWSA, Volendam, Netherlands. Philippe Fort, a 54-year-old French athlete, recently became one of the few humans in history to achieve Iron Iceman status by completing both a certified Ice Mile by the International Ice Swimming Association and a full Ironman triathlon (3 times) in Nice, France. After completing the Ironman Nice in 2005

Courtesy of WOWSA, Glasgow, Scotland. Lewis Pugh, the United Nations Patron of the Oceans, will give the keynote speech to a sold-out crowd at Scotland’s International Marine Conference on February 20th at the University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. Scotland’s vision is for clean, healthy, safe, productive and diverse seas that

Courtesy of WOWSA, Doha Bay, Qatar. Disappointed in 2008, 2012 and 2016, Ana Marcela Cunha got off to an excellent start in the build-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a victory on the opening stop on the 2019 FINA Marathon Swim Series. With her victory, the Brazilian dynamo is most definitely one of the

Courtesy of CSA, English Channel. The Channel Swimming Association has governed solo and relay crossings between the 33.8 km channel between England and France since 1927 and has implemented a drug testing policy since 2015. Michael Read MBE, president of the Channel Swimming Association, explains, “We believe that it is terribly important that our swimmers,