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

Courtesy of Track.RS, North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. In the biographical drama film Hidden Figures, African-American female mathematicians served critical roles at NASA during the early years of the United States space program in the 1960’s. But in the open water swimming world and throughout the history of the sport since Annette Kellerman

Photo courtesy of Ricardo Moreno; report courtesy of Guilherme Freitas . Nearly 4,000 people participated in the Travessia da Fuga das Ilhas, part of the 4-race Circuito Aqua series, on December 11th. The swimmers are taken by schooners to start on the island and they swim 2 km to the finish at Praia da Barra

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guillermo Bértola of Argentina and Xavier Desharnais of Canada have both long traveled around the world competing in a number of races on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix and on the FINA 10K Marathon Swim World Cup circuits as well as at FINA World Championships and professional

Courtesy of Derrick Frazer, Big Bay Events, South Africa. The Barker Rock Swim includes a 1.6 km and 3.2 km ocean swim on the Barker Rock Route in Clifton 3rd Beach on December 16th 2017 (Reconciliation Day in South Africa). For more information about the Big Bay Event, visit here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World