Courtesy of Lucas Rivet, Río de la Plata, Asociación Cruce a Nado Río de la Plata. Damián Blaum has been around a long, long time. The 36-year-old recently crossed the Río de la Plata, a tough 42.2 km swim from Colonia Del Sacramento in Uruguay to Punta Lara in Argentina in 9 hours 6 minutes […]

Recollection courtesy of Barry Watson; photo courtesy Daily Mail from January 6th 1963. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Barry Watson recalls ice swims that he and other hardened swimmers used to do on the first Sunday of the year during the 1960s. “The Open Swim was held on the first Sunday of

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is the CEH₂O – or Chief Evangelist for Water – for the Santa Cruz, California-based water-monitoring and -saving device company called Buoy Labs, Inc. The marine biologist explains his role with the company. “I’ve worked worldwide to change the conversation about water, for good. I’ve

Courtesy of WOWSA, Kailua Beach, Oahu. English Channel, Catalina Channel, Molokai Channel, Manhattan Island and Ederle marathon swimmer Michael Miller of Honolulu has a habit of training with long board shorts during his long ocean training sessions to create extra drag. But he also drags around a lot more than heavy board shorts during this

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ram Barkai, Toks Viviers, Kieron Palframan, Ryan Stramrood and Andrew Chin became the first swimmers to traverse around Cape Horn at the tip of South America 7 years ago today. The five South Africans from Cape Town faced uncertain and dangerous conditions and were punished by strong currents and

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “As a child growing up in a fishing family, big water and challenging conditions were the stories which always fascinated me,” recalls Nuala Moore. So it is not unusual that Moore is transitioning from competitive ice swimming races in a 25m pool to a triple swim adventure in Patagonia

Courtesy of Clean Lakes Alliance, southern Wisconsin. The Clean Lakes Alliance’s Shoreline Swim is held on Madison, Wisconsin on July 28th at Law Park (410 S. Blair Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53703). Whether you are a competitive swimmer looking for a great training opportunity in our 1.2-mile or 2.4-mile event in the same waters where the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Corinna Nolan, the first Irish Ice Ironwoman, completed her second Ice Mile at Wild Water Armagh under the auspices of International Ice Swimming Association Ireland in 34 minutes 52 seconds in 4.2°C water and 8.5°C air temperature on February 18th. Nolan completed an Ironman triathlon in Austria in June

Courtesy of END-WET from North Dakota to Minnesota. Daniel O’Kane was selected as the guest swimmer for the END-WET 2018. O’Kane was nominated by 5-time END-WET’er Landon Ascheman who said, “Last July, Daniel donned a wetsuit and left the south shore of Lake Superior. It was a few weeks before he stepped foot back on