Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Redmond, Anna-Carin Nordin, Michelle Macy, Darren Miller, Adam Walker and Kimberley Chambers have completed the Oceans Seven to date. These athletes have completed four or more of the seven Oceans Seven channels: 1. Stephen Redmond (Ireland): English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Catalina Channel, Cook Strait, Molokai Channel, Tsugaru

Home to four of the seven Oceans Seven challenges (Catalina Channel, Molokai Channel, Tsugaru Channel and Cook Strait), the Pacific Ocean can be an inviting place … as opposed to the irascible English Channel (see Donal Buckley‘s video below of this week’s conditions seen from Dover Harbour). The Pacific Ocean’s name was given by Portuguese

With interest in the Ocean’s Seven rising along with fears that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan is threatening the ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean, Open Water Source‘s Japanese-speaking staff investigated the possibility of channel swimmers getting harmed by radioactivity due to swimming in the Tsugaru Channel, one of the Oceans Seven challenges. It appears

Jen Schumacher is aiming to be the first person in history to conquer the Oceans Seven, seven of world’s most renowned or toughest marathon swims. With the Catalina Channel under her cap (twice with a Catalina-to-mainland and a mainland-to-Crossing crossing), Jen is swimming towards a target no one has yet accomplished. She has everything going

The Swim Your Age concept generated a wide range of feedback from “it is a meaningless metric” to “I can do it“. The marathon swimming world and its Swim Your Age concept is not meant for everyone – or even most people. It is a goal for a few – very few. Without a doubt,

Darren Miller, founder of Team Forever and a community activist from Murrysville, Pennsylvania, has long-range plans on the Ocean’s Seven. With a warm-up 24-mile swim in Tampa Bay, Darren took care of business on his first leg of the Oceans Seven with a 12:04 English Channel crossing. Now he is off training to achieve his

Peak 100 is conducting an online poll of the Toughest 100 Races in the World. These are unbelievably difficult challenges, all around the world both on land and in water, that requires physical exertion, mental toughness and emotional fortitude. But we believe that none of the athletes who do non-open water swimming events in the