Courtesy of Carina Bruwer Pugliese, Capo Mortola, Italy. South African musician Carina Bruwer completed her charity cross-border swim from France via Monaco to Italy called the Triple Country Swim today. “The moment I stepped onto Italian land – or rock – after swimming for 7 hours 6 minutes from the South of France, a route

Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, Kuroshio Current, Pacific Ocean. All remains good with the escort crew and Ben Lecomte on his 8,721 km transoceanic stage swim across the Pacific Ocean. . Manager Paul Lecomte reports, “After 2 days of bad weather, we launched Ben this morning for a good session of The Longest Swim. Our next

Photo of Chelsea Nauta in the Florida Keys courtesy of >Andy Newman. Information courtesy of Frankie Schembri/a>, Science Magazine. Frankie Schembri reported in Science Magazine that gene CMP-Neu5Ac Hydroxylase was discovered in humans 20 years ago. More recently, researchers found that mice with the CMP-Neu5Ac Hydroxylase gene can run 12% faster and 20% longer than

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. By profession and by day, Ryan Utsumi is an investment management professional from San Francisco, California. But by night and outside of the Bay Area in oceans around the world, the 39-year-old is quickly emerging as one tough channel swimmer. He has completed a crossing of the English Channel

Courtesy of WOWSA, The Olympic Club, San Francisco, California. When famed American swimming coach Doc Counsilman became the oldest man to swim across the English Channel in 1979 at the age of 58, his swim made headlines across America and help bring marathon swimming to the attention of the Baby Boomer generation. His swim was

Courtesy of Sandy Neilson-Bell, Lake Travis, Texas. Dr. Keith Bell and three-time Olympic gold medalist Sandy Neilson-Bell organize numerous pool and open water swimming events throughout the year for the American Swimming Association, but the longest events on her calendar are held in October near Austin, Texas. The annual 12-mile Lake Travis Relay will be