Courtesy of Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D., Blue Mind Life, California. Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D. annnounced a unique opportunity for the appropriate person, brand, and organization: “Blue Mind Life is looking for a water-loving angel investor to underwrite the next 20,000 blue marbles, 200 Blue Midn Life t-shirts, and 1,001 Blue Mind books with a US$12,000 […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “It is certainly one of the world’s most beautiful sea swims and the chances of winning a prize are, by far, the greatest,” says Steven Munatones. “Frank Flowers and his staff at CL Flowers and Sons work all year round to put on an outstanding event on Grand Cayman.

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida have both had long, successful careers. They competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swims and has won numerous Japanese domestic titles and various international races between 1 mile and 10 km, but they both won their first Asian Open Water Swimming

Courtesy of WOWSA, Castaic Lake, Southern California. “Oh, I was hurting those last 700, 800 meters. My arms…” said Ashley Twichell who completely dominated the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships at Castaic Lake in Southern California. The 27-year-old from North Carolina Aquatic Club had every reason to feel fatigued towards the end of

Photo below taken at 1:06:44 into the video above courtesy of USA Swimming at Castaic Lake, Southern California. FINA rules governing disqualification procedures are outlined in its open water swimming rules (see here). Section OWS 6.3 Disqualification Procedure specifically states the following: OWS 6.3.1 If in the Opinion of the Chief Referee or Referees, any

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Ocean Cleaner Project is an ocean advocacy service organization founded by open water swimmer Pia Lord. “The Ocean Cleaner Project develops machines which can clean up rivers, lakes, bays, coastal areas as well as open ocean areas to restore the planet to a more pristine state,” explains Lord.

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Abigail Bergman (Smith College, Class of 2018), Rebecca Nevitt (Wellesley College, Class of 1988), Charlotte Samuels (Smith College, Class of 2020), Eliza Cummings (Smith College, Class of 2017), Gabriela Kovacikova (Wellesley College, Class of 2014) and Cathleen Pruden (Mount Holyoke College, Class of 2016) will attempt a 40.4-mile (65

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Bosch from Sunnyside, New York was a member of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. He participated in various winter swimming events from China’s Taierzhuang Winter Swimming Festival to the U.S. Winter Swimming Championships in Vermont and New York. He helped raise money for Camp Sunshine that provides

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the early 21st century, USA Swimming asked Rick Walker, Denny Ryther and Dave Thomas to put together an elite training camp for its best potential open water swimmers. The camps were held in Lake Placid, New York and Fort Myers, Florida. Between June 6th and 10th, the USA