Courtesy of Hassan Baraka, Swim in Morocco. Hassan Baraka is organizing an amateur 3 km and 10 km event in the northeast of Morocco called the Swim In Morocco on September 24th of September. “The ambassador of this event is two-time Olympic swimmer (2008 + 2012) Sara El Bekri and Hungarian swimmer Nicoletta Kiss is […]

Courtesy of Michelle Crozier, Jennifer Adler, California. Michelle Crozier, Director of Sustainability + Social Impact at Abode, talks to underwater photographer and marine ecologist Jennifer Adler here about making an impact. View additional photography by Adler here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rio Negro Challenge Amazonia includes 1.5 km and 3 km river swims from Iranduba to Manaus in Brazil in the Rio Negro. The Rio Negro is the largest tributary of the Amazon and the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world’s ten largest rivers in

Courtesy of END-WET, Mighty Red River of the North from North Dakota to Minnesota. The END-WET (Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test) is a 36-mile (57.9 km) river swim down the Mighty Red River of the North from state of North Dakota to the state of Minnesota. Longest open water swimming competition in North America

Courtesy of South China Morning Post and BBC,Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s beaches are increasingly the end game of an increasing amount of garbage coming from the sea from all over the Asia, from China and Taiwan to the Philippines and Vietnam. Doug Woodring explained to the BBC about this mounting problem, “It may also be

Courtesy of Jean Craven of Madswimmer, in a group tandem swim of 29 swimmers crossing 25 km in Lake Malawi near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia. Jean Craven is on to something. Given his varied aquatics background as a competitive swimmer, a water polo player, a biathlete, a stellar Navy diver, and a high-altitude

Courtesy of Darren Miller, Team Forever. John Batchelder has had quite a year so far and he has a long way to go. The Colorado swimmer started his season with the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim which he did butterfly. Then he finished seventh in the 7-mile (11.2 km) Swim Around Lido Key in Florida

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like Kate Rew, Adam Walker, Simon Murie and other aquapreneurs around the world, the Wild Swimming Brothers are taking their passion for the open water and commercializing their activities for the benefit of others. “This week we announce an exciting new collaboration with the mighty Red Bull to bring

Video courtesy of Madswimmer, Lake Malawi, Malawi near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia. The image of a solo swimmer courageously and patiently swimming across tides, currents and waves in a channel is the iconic image of marathon swimming. But an increasing number of open water swimmers are choosing to do tandem swims in point-to-point