Courtesy of FINA, Setúbal Bay, Portugal. Arena 9 wetsuits seemed to be the favored neoprene choice among the professional swimmers at the FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series held in Setúbal Bay, Portugal this past weekend where Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary was the defending champion in Setúbal Bay and is among the top echelon of professional […]

Courtesy of FINA, Setúbal Bay, Portugal. It was cold. At least by FINA standards. With the water temperature dropping below the FINA mandatory wetsuit level of 18°C (64.4°F), the fastest professional open water swimmers donned on black neoprene wear and took to the coolish water off the Portuguese coast. Wetsuit or no wetsuit, Haley Anderson

Courtesy of WOWSA, San Francisco Bay, California. Today, Pacific Open Water Swim Co. organized a new 10 km prison island swim in San Francisco Bay. Frenchman Jacques Tuset completed the swim in 1 hour 58 minutes 30 seconds in the 14°C waters between Angel Island to Kirby Cove on the California mainland after passing under

Photo courtesy of Lucy Pike and article by Anna Boyiazis for WePresent, Zanzibar. Read a fascinating cultural story and view the obstacles and opportunities to learn how to swim for women and girls in Zanzibar. Zanzibar Island is an Indian Ocean islands located off the Swahili Coast, adjacent to mainland Tanzania in Africa. The island