Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, aQuellé Midmar Mile, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Archbishop Desmond Tutu lent his considerable influence to the #BackTheSwim campaign #LetWestPapuaVote that was launched in the British Parliament at the Palace of Westminster on January 24th. #BackTheSwim is the world’s largest Global Petition for West Papua in support of the Westminster Declaration for an Internationally Supervised Vote for

Courtesy of Escape From Lewes, DelMoSports, Delaware. There are open water swimming courses of all kinds. In general, the courses can be defined as follows where the start and finish can either be in the water or on land: * A geometric course is a course with triangular, rectangular or any other multi-sided shapes. It

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Košecký Marek organizes a winter swimming competition in Bratislava (Wakelake in Golden Sands near Hotel Color), Slovakia on March 11th. Part of the Czech Cup for winter swimming, swimmers from more than 10 countries will take part in the 100m, 250m, 500m, 750m and 1 km races. Swimmers can

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vito Bialla (California, USA): I have to say taking our swimmers out to the Farallones in September when the gray suits are there and swimming through the opening and around the small island [see photo on left]. Water temperature is 56 or 57°C; swim is 25 minutes huge swells.

Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Pago Pago Harbor, American Samoa. “My favorite place to swim is Pago Pago Harbor where we first launched our youth Toa o le Tai program,” recalls Bruckner Chase. The Toa o le Tai means Hero of the Sea or Ocean Warriors in the Samoan language. The innovative learn-to-swim and educational marine

Courtesy of Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González, Cook Strait, en route to the Oceans Seven.