Courtesy of Seti Afoa, Samoa Events. Seti Afoa of Samoa Events announced that Christina Harris as the 2017 Overall Athlete of the Year. “The 54-year-old swimmer from Nelson, New Zealand entered three event in 2017 and earned two titles winning the 22.3 km Apolima Strait in April and the 10 km Pacific Open Water Challenge […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diego López Dominguez, a Spanish open water swimmer from the Canary Islands, came up with the concept of Continents Seven. As a globally-minded entrepreneur, he wanted to create a series of seven different solo open water swims that should be completed on all of the seven continents of Planet

Courtesy of Catharyn Hayne. “Ocean Ambassadors with Ocean Recovery Alliance are individuals who help spread the word about the marine environment through sports and other activities in their daily lives. Their excellence in athletics or other personal achievements has made them leaders in their respective specialties,” said Doug Woodring, founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance. “We

Courtesy of Ned Denison, Cobh, Ireland. In early 2005 Ned Denison had an idea of swimming around Cobh, located on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. “I had never swum a marathon of 10 km or more and was looking at possible training swims for my planned English Channel crossing that summer. Back then,

Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation published its 2018 calendar. Each month showcases different open water swimmers around the world with Sarah Thomas on the cover for the second consecutive year: Cover – Sarah Thomas swimming in Lake Champlain in New York. Photo by Ken Classen shown above. January – Jeff Miller

Courtesy of Mary Catherine Martin, Juneau, Alaska. “No matter the season, every day from age six began the same way for a young K’inéix Kwáan man training to be a warrior in pre-contact Yakutat — by wading into the ocean and staying as long as he could without passing out,” wrote Mary Catherine Martin about

Courtesy of Ioannis Kifonidis, Thessaloniki, Greece. The pre-production poster of #A Swim Across by Dimitris Giouzepas. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Photos courtesy of Sarah Thomas. Information courtesy of Tom Allen, Financial Times. Tom Allen is a freelance writer and journalist who wrote an article about the incomparable Sarah Thomas in an article in the Financial Times called Sarah Thomas: the woman who swam a century. Thomas has won and been nominated for numerous awards over