Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Stewart Evans became the first individual to swim from the Farallon Islands to the California mainland in 1967, he wore a swim cap as others have done before and after him. But looking back at historical photos of that cap, it appears to be a neoprene cap that […]

The Night Train Swimmers are heading off in the reverse direction – or at least in a completely different direction to achieve their goal of swimming between the California coast and the Farallons Island. Contrary to Stewart Evans and Ted Erikson, the only people to have successfully swum between those two points, the six Night

Way back in 1967, Charlie Chaplin launched his last film, the Vietnam War was in full swing, the Green Bay Packers won the first Super Bowl, the first Boeing 737 flew, Elvis Presley got married, The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the first UK color TV broadcasts begin on BBC2 and Stewart