Courtesy of Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System offers a map that shows the most recent detection of tagged tiger sharks. The location of individual tiger sharks can be tracked. The pink dots around the northern coast of Oahu in the above chart is that of […]

Photo courtesy of Vito Bialla, Night Train Swimmers. Isabelle Robuck recently wrote about A Day in The Life of a College Swimmer in Swimming World Magazine. Robuck described the typical 24-hour period in 8 stages: Step 1: Morning Practice Step 2: Breakfast & Morning Class Step 3: Nap Time Step 4: Afternoon Practice Step 5:

Courtesy of ASPIRE (Association for Spinal Injury Research, Rehabilitation and Reintegration), Ireland. Kevin Murphy has not only swum across the English Channel 34 times, but he has also swum around the world in many open bodies of water. His longest swim has lasted over 52 hours, and he has done several dozens of swims of

Courtesy of WOWSA, Black Sea, Bulgaria. Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna has hosted the 4.5 km Varna-Galata Swimming Marathon (Плувен маратон Галата-Варна) for the 78th time. Cash prizes of 1,000BGN (US$591) are given to the top finishers that included Ventseslav Aidarski last year who won in 52 minutes 55 seconds, a record time. Gabriela

Courtesy of Bob Placak, Raccoon Strait, San Francisco Bay, California. The unique aspect of the RCP Tiburon Mile is the head-to-head competition between top pool swimmers and top open water swimmers. While the open water swimmers come down in distance (from 5 km, 10 km and 25 km), the pool swimmers go up in distance

Courtesy of Devon Clifford, Hudson River. Joe Zemaitis (38) in 39 hours 52 minutes 46 seconds John Zemaitis (35) in 40 hours 1 minute 8 seconds Katrin Walter (40) in 40 hours 54 minutes 29 seconds Greg O’ Connor (50) in 42 hours 9 minutes 9 seconds Devon Clifford (28) in 42 hours 40 minutes

Courtesy of WOWSA. Swimming World Magazine published an article about female coaching role models for young women. The article by Payton Titus focused on three well-established swimming coaches [see here]: Jill Sterkel of the University of Texas, Penny Dean, Ph.D. of Pomona-Pitzer College, and Teri McKeever of the University of California Berkeley. Titus writes, “Women

Photos courtesy of Kelvin Trautman, English Channel, UK. Lewis Pugh is certainly focused and remains on message as he constantly strives to create and tackle difficult and unusual swims around the world while drawing attention and creating awareness about the impact of climate change and the vital role our oceans play for humanity. From the