Courtesy of Jane Cairns, East Beach, Santa Barbara, California. The Reef & Run Series series in Santa Barbara, California returns for its 10th season in 2018. The theme is Back to the Beach for the series that begins on Thursday, June 7th and continues each Thursday until August 23rd. The events start every Thursday at

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Just prior to setting off on his Continents Seven global tour, Diego López Dominguez defended his title by winning the 10 km race at the Swim for Haiti event on January 28th for the second year in a row. From Haiti, he returned to New York and then worked

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers often experience dreams of swimming in the ocean. Their dreams range from intensely interesting and thoroughly enjoyable to simply frustrating and downright scary. Sometimes, swimmers have described swimming effortlessly in very cold water, but they feel comfortably warm. Conversely, swimmers have experienced nightmares where something was

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice Ironmen and Ice Ironwomen are the most rare of aquatic athletes – they can push themselves to the extreme in triathlons and ice swimming. In order to become an Ice Ironman or Ice Ironwoman, these athletes must complete both an Ice Mile and a full Ironman triathlon. Andrew

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Viktor Bogdańskiego and Wojciech Kostrzewa finished 1-2 at the 2017 Challenge Tolkmicko-Krynica Morska, an 8 km course from Tolkmicko to Krynica in Vistula Lagoon in the Gulf of Gdańsk, Poland between June 23rd and 25th for both soloists or teams. Extreme Baltic Challenge event director Sebastian Karaś [shown on

Courtesy of FINA, Doha, Qatar. The Dutch duo of Sharon van Rouwendaal and Ferry Weertman [shown above] won the first stop on the FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series in 2 hours 2 minutes 24.4 seconds and 1 hour 52 minues 41.6 seconds respectively. The 2016 Olympic champions from the Netherlands kicked off their 2018 open

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Damián Blaum won the Maraton Villa Urquiza Paraná, a 21 km point-to-point race held along the Paraná River in Argentina. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Courtesy of FINAtv, Doha, Qatar. You can watch the world’s fastest open water swimming on live TV at the first stop of the 2018 FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series is in Doha, Qatar this week. On March 17th, the men will compete in the morning and the women will compete in the afternoon; both races