Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. Sara Marley, a 49-year-old Irish open water swimmer living in London, became the latest to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with yesterday’s 12 hour 37 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel. Her solo swims include: * September 2013: 24.3 km Cape Circumnavigation Challenge […]

Courtesy of Zach Margolis, English Channel. Software engineer Zach Margolis knows how to approach and solve problems. Back in 2011, the software engineer saw the movie On A Clear Day. “I loved the name and started mulling over the idea of swimming the English Channel myself one day,” he recalled. Dial forward to 2015 and

Lifeguard Laura Zellmer Selected OC Teacher Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. During the past 13 summers, former competitive swimmer Laura Zellmer has served as a lifeguard instructor with the Huntington Beach Junior Lifeguards. Many of these graduates become full-time lifeguards in the City of Huntington Beach where nearly 13 million beach-goers

Illustration of Zach Margolis‘ track distance to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California. Route distance and track distance are always different in open water swimming. Route distance is the shortest straight-line tangent distance from start to finish, either on a point-to-point course or in a geometric course. Conversely, the track distance is the distance

Courtesy of WOWSA, Dover, UK. Zach Margolis reported today from Dover, England, “Today I just got the ‘go’ from my pilot, so tomorrow morning I’m going to swim. 5:15 am Friday [start]. A little over three years ago, I met Kimberley Chambers for the first time through Vanessa Slavich, and I promised I’d swim the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Pacific Ocean. Daily reports from The Swim across the Pacific Ocean by Ben Lecomte are posted on Facebook. Ronda Bowen wrote a summary of Lecomte’s first 14 days here. Lecomte is now finished with Day 16. The 8,721 km transoceanic stage swim can be tracked here on Yellow Brick. The first tracking