Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Ocean Positive, Ocean City, New Jersey. Bruckner Chase‘s Ocean Positive and the Ocean City Swim Club are now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Ready Nation Ambassador program. They will launch a summer series on beach and ocean safety, science, and conservation. This is Part One of the

Courtesy of New York Open Water, Manhattan Island, New York. The first of four swims of the 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim was held on June 24th when blistering fast Benjamin Freeman of Australia comfortably won the 45.8 km circumnavigation swim around Manhattan Island in New York in 6 hours 55 minutes 21 seconds. The

Courtesy of Sally Minty-Gravett, Manhattan Island, New York. In the first of four swims of the 2017 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim series, 18-year-old Prabhat Raju Koli of India became the youngest male swimmer to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Coached by Sally Minty-Gravett M.B.E. of Jersey, he completed the Triple Crown

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Expect the unexpected in the open water. On the week that Cindy Toscano won the 10 km Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Natación Championships in 3 hours 27 minutes, Italy’s Olympic silver medalist Rachele Bruni completed in a 10 km course in Setúbal Bay, Portugal at the FINA/HOSA

Courtesy of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre released its global scientific assessment of climate change impacts on World Heritage coral reefs. 21 of 29 World Heritage reefs are being subjected to severe and/or repeated heat stress that has led to some of the worst bleaching observed at iconic sites like the Great

The 5th annual Navarino Challenge, photography courtesy of Elias Lefas. The 2017 Navarino Challenge is a multi-sport event that includes a 1.6 km open water swim in Navarino Bay at the port of Pylos in the Ionian Sea. The event will be held October 13th-15th in Messinia and Costa Navarino, Greece along Costa Navarino. The

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Expect the unexpected in the open water. On the week that the winner of the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Natación (CCCAN) Championships in Trinidad & Tobago swam 3 hours 3 minutes on a 10 km course, Hungary’s Kristóf Rasovszky completed the 10 km course in Portugal at