Photo of Sarah Thomas courtesy of Andrew Malinak; ice swimming photo of Nuala Moore. The Naples Island Swim & SUP event is sponsoring a 2-hour presentation on The World of Open Water Swimming on July 18th from 6-8 pm at the United States Sailing Center in Long Beach, California. Steven Munatones of the World Open […]

Photos courtesy of Kelvin Trautman, English Channel, UK. Lewis Pugh is now on Day 5 of The Long Swim along the length of the English Channel. He reports, “It’s been quite an ordeal. It’s very technical to round the headlands – the tides are like rivers. The tides are such that I can swim for

Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, Pacific Ocean. After only swimming 1.74 nautical miles on July 14th, Ben Lecomte knocked off 23.26 nautical miles on July 15th and 27.49 nautical miles on July 16th on The Swim where he is nearly 500 nautical miles off the coast of Japan. But there was no swimming today. Although everyone

Courtesy of Track.RS, Catalina Channel, California. John Batchelder set out this morning from the Southern California mainland at 7:06 am this morning from Smuggler’s Cove on an unthinkable, unprecedented two-way butterfly crossing of the Santa Catalina Channel. His tracker of his 64.6 km butterfly swim is here and shown above. The water temperature is currently

Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. Guy Batchelor became the 182nd person in history to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with today’s 32.3 km crossing of the Catalina Channel from the Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California mainland in 12 hours 4 minutes. The retired British Armed Forces

Courtesy of WOWSA, Manhattan Island, New York. 51-year-old attorney Eugene ‘Gino’ Hanrahan completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, with his 7 hour 26 minute 20 Bridges Manhattan Swim in New York on July 14th Hanraham is shown on left after finishing a crossing of the Catalina Channel in 9 hours 36 minutes. Becoming

Courtesy of WOWSA, Manhattan Island, New York. The July 14th edition of the 20 Bridges Manhattan Swim was a smoother, faster circumnavigation swim around Manhattan Island in New York than its previous version. 39-year-old Nathan Payas from Gibraltar not only won the race, but also completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, one of

Courtesy of WOWSA, Pacific Ocean. Swimmers trying to cross the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in northern Japan [see image on left] frequently encounter eddies, swirling circling current of ocean water. These eddies either serve to delay or – at worse – lead to a channel crossing being stopped. Winds, the prevailing Tsugaru Current

Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, Pacific Ocean. After the first 29 days of The Swim by Ben Lecomte, he has swum 469 nautical miles (869 km) off the coast of Japan. His planned 8,721 km transoceanic stage swim across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California is nearly 10% finished after one month on the Pacific