Courtesy of Oscar Rubio, Noli, Italy. Last weekend, Noli was the site of last stage on the Open Water World Tour. Over 500 swimmers from all other Europea gathered in Noli, Italy for the final race of the Italian Open Water Tour Challenge 2018. It was a colorful event. A rainbow effect was enabled by […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Dingle, Co Kerry, Ireland. Nuala Moore received the Admiral Frank Golden Scholarship from The Lifesaving Foundation, an international charity devoted to saving lives from drowning. The Foundation supports a number of partner projects and hosts regular drowning prevention conferences. Moore was invited to speak on Rescue Emergency Care for channel swimmers and

Swim Head Up At The Olympics Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo, Japan. The Japan Times wrote an interesting local perspective of what the Olympic 10 km marathon swim finalists may face in Odaiba Marine Park at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: see here. Currently, swimmers who wish to swim in Odaiba Marine Park are

Courtesy of WOWSA, Bowen Island, Canada. “Spots of warm water saved me,” recalled Jessi Harewicz who recently completed a solo 33 km circumnavigation swim around Bowen Island in Howe Sound near Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The 34-year-old Canadian’s ultimate tally: 21 hours 0 minutes 25 seconds swimming in 13-16°C water including the times that