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 […]

Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 11 Courtesy of Diego López, Nevis to St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim, Caribbean Sea. Swimming the Narrows is the name of the game in the Nevis to St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim, a 4 km inter-island swim from Nevis to St. Kitts in the Lesser Antilles in the

Courtesy of Terence Bell, Venice Beach, California. The Ocean Lover, an educational company that offers knowledge about the underwater world through digital content and physical experiences, is a project by aquapreneur Terence Bell. He explains, “The Ocean Lover is an educational company that is dedicated to reconnecting people with the underwater world through sharing personal

Courtesy of James Morgan about the Bajau Laut Sea Nomads. British film director and photojournalist James Morgan writes and photographs the incredibly adaptive Bajau Laut sea nomads who have lived their lives almost entirely at sea between Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Read on here. Copyright © 2018 by James Morgan.

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1993, 25-year-old professional marathon swimmer Sergio Chiarandini and 36-year-old Stanford graduate and civil engineer Rick Heltzel from Honolulu swam shoulder-to-shoulder for much of the 7 km Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim along Waikiki Beach. Eventually, Chiarandini ran up the soft sand at Sans Souci Beach under

Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 10 Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cherelle Osteringer (23) in 1:30:43 and John de Mestre (52) in 1:33:01 won the 2014 Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim on Oahu. Eric Nilsson (25) in 1:32:54 and Victoria West (31) in 1:49:35 won the 2012 Hawaiian