Courtesy of WOWSA, Catalina Channel, California. After his sixth Catalina Channel crossing, Hank Wise was honored for his open water swimming achievement by the Aquatics Capital of America earlier this year. The Long Beach native completed a 10 hour 1 minute crossing to share the title of King of the Catalina Channel with another local

Courtesy of Elias Lefas of George Arniakos in the Santorini Experience. Courtesy of Elias Lefas of Santorini Experience in Greece.

Courtesy of Mark Zinno on Kill The Quit. John Doolittle is a United States Air Force Academy graduate and a former Navy SEAL. Doolittle’s experiences with competitive swimming and his 21-year service as a Navy SEAL with overseas deployments from Afghanistan to Kosovo led him to swim across the English Channel. Doolittle has helped raise

Courtesy of Oscar Rubio, Open Water World Tour. Spetses is an affluent island in Greece where the Spetses Mini Marathon was organized by Dr. Marina-Lida Coutarelli. Spetses was the last stage of the Open Water World Tour 2018: a series of swims of 150 meters for children to 5 km as well as running and

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Centuries before pool swimming became the rage in 20th century, mankind competed in open water swims. Emperor Go-Yozei, the 107th Emperor of Japan who reigned from 1586 to 1611, organized the first national open water swimming organization in 1603. Prior to that, the Emperor declared that school children in

Courtesy of Lewis Pugh, South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica. UN Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh has exchanged his swimsuit for a suit after completing The Long Swim, his 49-day, 560 km stage swim along the English Channel from Land’s End in Cornwall to Dover in Kent. Today, he met with the UK Foreign Secretary to

Just prior to crossing the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan, Stephen Redmond passed up all the seafood and seaweed that he was offered by his Japanese hosts. Redmond later became the first person to complete the Oceans Seven, prefering to exist on mostly white bread and politely refusing all the marine algae that the local