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 […]

Courtesy of Daniela Azmaor, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Four Brazilians completed the first successful 85 km tandem swim from Vitória to Anchieta in Brazil. With warm sea temperatures lapping against 7,941 km of coastlines, Brazil offers almost innumerable swimming opportunities. Vitória is the capital city of the state of Espírito Santo in southeast Brazil and is

Courtesy of WOWSA, Sports Basement, San Francisco, California. The documentary film KIM SWIMS returns to San Francisco as it continues its global sweep of film festivals around the world, coming to the Sports Basement in San Francisco, California on June 21st. Director Kate Webber will be in attendance answering questions about her film that showcases

Courtesy of WOWSA, Pacific Ocean. In transoceanic stage swims, it usually takes a few days or weeks for all the practical operational and communication kinks to be worked out. “Literally, on the high seas, things just don’t work out as planned and the crew tries to get everything in order and running as planned,” says

Courtesy of Simon Sinek. Simon Sinek advises, “It’s better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.” Great words to live by, especially for swimmers in the open water. Sinek also says, “Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to

Courtesy of Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. Far, far away from the most renowned hotbeds of open water swimming, Phil White has created an unlikely mecca of open water swimming in Vermont. Through his relentless force of persuasion and countless hours of endless work in The Clubhous on the shore of Lake Memphremagog, he has