Photos courtesy of Peter Knapp, Catalina Channel, California. Hank Wise completed his fourth career Catalina Channel crossing in 8 hours 20 minutes today.* In 2010 on his first crossing, the soon 49-year-old’s wife was pregnant with his son Fox. How time flies. “Today, my boy Fox was on the rocky beach at Terranea [Point] waiting […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I will be leaving from Palos Verdes around 9 pm tonight [to to swim across the Catalina Channel from Mainland to Catalina Island],” says Hank Wise, a waterman and coach from SWIM Long Beach, California who has previously done an 8 hour 7 minute crossing (#7 all-time) in the