Courtesy of Phil White, Memphremagog Winter Swimming Society, Vermont. 62-year-old Lynn Rublee of Newport, Vermont [shown above] and 52-year-old Elizabeth Hershey of Conestoga, Pennsylvania both qualified for the 5th annual Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival. The duo both swam 25 meters in 35°F water at Eagle Point on Lake Memphremagog and will compete in a pool […]

Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 12 Courtesy of Shubham Vanmali, English Channel. Shubham Vanmali has successfully crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and a marathon swim in San Francisco Bay between Aquatic Park and Angel Island. In 2014, he completed a

Courtesy of Scott Zornig, Swim Camp Mexico, Sea of Cortez. “We were able to release 100 baby sea turtles into the wild as part of last year’s Swim Camp Mexico in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez,” recalled camp founder Scott Zornig. “We released these 100 leatherback turtles who were hatched only 3 hours

Courtesy of Scott Zornig, Swim Camp Mexico, Sea of Cortez. Scott Zornig is organizing the fourth Swim Camp Mexico in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez. Swim Camp Mexico IV will be held between March 13th – 17th 2019. Zornig describes the camp, “If you like margaritas and Mexican folk dance, amazing walks along

Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Brazil. On the morning of November 30th, the neoprened Jabotis do Sertão relay including Brazilian open water swimmers Flávio Tabarini, Marcelo Napolitano and team leader Sandro Ottoboni with coach Wanderley Santos began the 36 km Travessia do Leme ao Pontal at 2 am in Rio

Courtesy of International Winter Swimming Association, Jelgavas, Latvia. Bárbara Hernández Huerta was a busy woman during the first stage of the IWSA World Cup series that kicked off with the 10th Jelgavas Roni Cup in Latvia. Among the 231 swimmers, not only did Hernández win the 450m endurance swim in 6:28.29, but she also competed

Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Inverness, Scotland. Ger Kennedy is inviting fun-loving swimmers to The Gathering of the Swimming Clans in Inverness, Scotland between December 29th 2018 to January 1st 2019. The Irish ice swimmer explains, “Swim in Loch Ness and other lochs and John O’Groats in the far north of Scotland, celebrate Hogmanay [the last

Courtesy of GoSwim. Aaron Peirsol, a 7-time Olympic medalist and world record holder, is a great body surfer and open water swimmer. In a recent GoSwim video, he shows how a standard vertical kicking drill can be made more difficult and effective with a quick quarter turn every third kick. “For competitive open water swimmers

Courtesy of Andrew Chin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Cape Town open water swimmer Andrew Chin loves the extreme in lakes, rivers and oceans. Yesterday, he completed his fifth Swim for Rivers challenge on the Mtamvuna River in KwaZulu-Natal. He swam 70 km over a 6-day period, finishing at the mouth of the river just south of