June 6th, 2010: Christine Jennings Wins Her First National Championship ... Back in 2008 in her first major international open water championship in Seville, Spain, Christine Jennings was sandwiched between world champions ... read here June 5th, 2010: Down to the Wire Finish at the USA Swimming Championships ... The finish of the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships is shown here, brought to you by The Athlete Village ... read here June 4th, 2010: Midshipman Navigates to Victory ... 18-year-old Deni Cullom of the Mission Viejo Nadadores navigated through a flotilla of nine men over the last 1K of the USA Swimming National 5K Open Water Swimming ... read here May 29, 2010: If the NCAA Held An Open Water Championships ... Since the announcement by the International University Sports Federation of its new 10K open water swimming event to its World University Games ... read here May 29, 2010: Paddling and Escorting in the Open Water ... International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer David Clark, an English Channel and Catalina Channel swimmer, coach and kayaker, will give a presentation at the upcoming ... read here May 29, 2010: Double-Double Channel Swimmer on Open Water Women ... Anne Cleveland, who will attempt to become the world's first 'double-double channel swimmer' by completing a double-crossing of ... read here May 29, 2010: Fast Swimming in the Sea of Cortez ... The Sea of Cortez Swim did not reach their ultimate goal of 182K in the beautiful Mexican seas, but they certainly gave it their best shot ... read here May 28, 2010: Penny Dean Visits San Diego Triathlon Club ... The legendary dynamo Penny Dean will give a speech to the Triathlon Club of San Diego on June 2nd. Penny, along with fellow Hall of Famer John Kinsella ... read here May 28, 2010: Open Water Oil Spills ... With oil gushing out of the British Petroleum oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico over the past week, the amount of leaking oil is now considered to be one of the top 20 oil spills in history ... read here May 28, 2010: Marginally Above Freezing, Significantly Above Sea Level ... A video interview of Lewis Pugh after his Swim on Mt Everest - Swim for Peace was broadcast on Fox News and many other media outlets around the world ... read here May 28, 2010: Unsung Heroes of Open Water Swimming ... Every open water swim has volunteers, people who unselfishly give their time, talents and energies to support open water swimmers from the English Channel or to Fiji ... read here May 27, 2010: Viva Navia's Open Water Season ... Nacho Sela of the Navia Open Water Swimming Organising Committee welcomes in another season of swims from Navia, Spain. The 53rd annual ... read here May 27, 2010: Marcos Diaz, Changing Direction from Asia to Africa ... Staying flexible is the name of the open water game. Marcos Diaz will change direction and venue for the second leg of his four-swim Swim Across the Continents project ... read here May 27, 2010: USA Swimming's Swimsuit Rules for Its National Championships ... USA Swimming clarified the confusion surrounding the allowable swimsuits for its upcoming National Open Water Swimming Championships and National in ... read here May 27, 2010: Open Water is a Different World ... Nora Toledano and her fellow Sea of Cortez swimmers faced challenges that other marathon athletes do not face ... read here May 27, 2010: A Fragile Earth Signed by a Fearless Leader ... Lewis Pugh is heading down Mount Everest and will be back at sea level for a book signing on June 1st in London ... read here May 26, 2010: Victorious Defeat in the Sea of Cortez ... The courageous group of intrepid swimmers attempting to swim across the Sea of Cortez and set a new world record for the longest continuous non-stop relay on the open ... read here May 25, 2010: Swimmers' Right-of-Way Signed into Law in New Hampshire ... Greg Whitman reported that New Hampshire SB362, relative to giving swimmers and kayakers the right of way in open bodies of water in New Hampshire ... read here May 25, 2010: Csaba Gercsak Heading to California for a 10K Clash ... 2008 Olympic 10K swimmer Csaba Gercsak of Hungary, currently training in Florida, will take on his fellow world-class marathon swimmers from America, Mexico ... read here May 25, 2010: Beautiful Beaches in Santa Barbara ... John Dussliere, USA Swimming's Olympic open water swimming coach, started Wednesday night open water training sessions in beautiful Santa Barbara, California, aimed at age-group and ... read here May 25, 2010: Por Ellas, Heading to the Mexican Mainland ... Nearly 24 hours after their start, the Sea of Cortez team continues on. "We started our challenge at 6 am ... read here May 25, 2010: Alan Clarkson, True Treasure of the World of Swimming ... "He was such an influence on our sport it is hard to know where to start." Alan Clarkson, one of the backbones ... read here May 24, 2010: Lake Tahoe Advice for the Summer of 2010 ... Karen Rogers, who will attempt one of the most audacious swims in history this July when she tackles the elements, the distance and the numerous Great White Sharks ... read here May 24, 2010: 2010-11 New Zealand Ocean Swim Series Announced ... Scott Rice of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series, one of the world's most successful and innovative open water swimming series, announced the dates ... read here May 24, 2010: Plenty of California Channel Crossing Opportunities ... Several swimmers will attempt the various channel swims of the Santa Barbara Channel: Dave Van Mouwerik, Kimberly Rutherford, Brooks Richardson and Joni ... read here May 24, 2010: Cruce al Golfo de California ... The Sea of Cortez Swim Relay (Cruce al Golfo de california) set off this morning at 4:47 am local time after their well-attended two-hour press conference last ... read here May 23, 2010: 2-3 Days on the Mexican High Seas Set for Tomorrow ... Vito Bialla and his crew of fellow American and Mexican adventurers have gathered in La Paz to begin their 182K swim across the Sea of Cortez ... read here May 23, 2010: Achieving the Impossible, Lewis Pugh Conquers Everest ... Lewis Pugh, renowned environmentalist and swimmer, lived up to his recently published book, "Achieving the Impossible. A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth ... read here May 23, 2010: Mimi Hughes, 981 Miles from Pittsburgh to Cairo ... Mimi Hughes began another one of her long staged swims, 981 miles worth in the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois ... read here May 23, 2010: Lewis Pugh, Demonstrating the Strength of the Human Spirit ... Lewis Pugh achieved the impossible. Swimming at 5300-meter altitude, staring at the summit of Mount Everest. Battling the cold, real cold at 2°C ... read here May 22, 2010: Swimmin' in Moonshine in Missouri ... The Swimmin' in Moonshine in beautiful Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri is a fundraiser for the James River Basin Partnership to ... read here May 22, 2010: Let the Olympic Games Begin ... The women's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics will be held on Thursday, August 9th (Day 13 of the Olympics). The men's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim ... read here May 22, 2010: Melissa Gorman Notching Another Victory in Another Country ... The 2K Noosa Winter Festival Blue Water Swim always has a notoriously tough field, capped at 700 swimmers. Third-place Codie Trent ... read here May 22, 2010: Swim N Pick at the Fiji Ocean Swim Series ... How many times have you been at the shoreline and encountered trash, thinking why did these people not pick up after themselves? ... read here May 21, 2010: Polish Qualification for European Juniors ... Michal Skrodzki, founder of the AWF Katowice Open Water Swim near Germany and the Czech Republic, announced that the Polish Swimming Federation ... read here May 21, 2010: Trio Team to Take on California Teams ... The Tri-Hampton YMCA Swim Team Swim Team in Pennsylvania is sending its top three distance swimmers to the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in ... read here May 21, 2010: Why Open Water Swimming Rocks ... Mike Gustafson of SwimNetwork penned some great analogies when describing open water swimming, especially in relationship to pool swimming in his latest ... read here May 21, 2010: The Toughest Swimmer In The World ... Casey Barrett of USA Swimming's SwimNetwork writes colorfully and respectfully of Lynne Cox ... read here May 20, 2010: Philip Rush At the Global Open Water Swimming Conference ... At the Global Open Water Swimming Conference sitting casually in the back of the room listening politely to the presentators will be mild-mannered ... read here May 20, 2010: The Open Water Stars Were Out In Florida ... At the 2010 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies, the world's greatest marathon swimmers were all smiles ... read here May 20, 2010: International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame ... From Captain Matthew Webb who first crossed the English Channel in 1875 to Lynne Cox who was the first person to swim in Antarctica ... read here May 20, 2010: World Swim Against Malaria - In The Pool Open Water ... The World Swim Against Malaria (WSM), a global initiative sponsored by Speedo and supported by FINA to raise money in order to fight malaria ... read here May 20, 2010: The Sea Monkeys Of Seal Beach ... International Swimming Hall of Fame honorees Lynne Cox and Penny Dean, and their famed open coach Siga Rose have trained in Seal Beach, California ... read here May 20, 2010: The Sicilian Summer In the Open Water ... Nino Fazio provided a complete list of the open water swims scheduled for this summer in Sicily ... read here May 19, 2010: Wrigley Marathon Swim Re-dux Undone by Sharks ... In 1927, one of the most famous marathon swims in history occurred when William Wrigley (of chewing gum fame) sponsored a US$25,000 winner-take-all race ... read here May 19, 2010: Tower 26 Tough Triathlon Training ... Tower 26’s Gerry Rodrigues continues to work his magic with professional triathletes and beginner swimmers ... read here May 19, 2010: Swimming Through Blooms Of Squids ... Mónica Ramírez Blancarte is part of the Sea of Cortez relay that has plans to swim for 30-40 hours in Mexican sea between Baja California ... read here May 18, 2010: The Hot And Cold Of Olympic Marathon Swimming ... Leading up to the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-class athletes prepared themselves to perform well in very warm ... read here May 18, 2010: Vitality And Vigor With Vito ... Six swimmers - 3 from Mexico and 3 from the US - will be together for a very long time on the high seas: between 30 - 40 hours in the Sea of Cortez ... read here May 18, 2010: The Growing Success And Legend Of Sandycove Island ... Ned Denison, Swim Ireland's National Open Water Committee chairman, announced the details of the Cork Ireland Distance Swim Camp from ... read here May 18, 2010: Jamie Patrick Sets The Stage In Clear Lake ... Jamie Patrick became the first person to swim across Clear Lake in northern California this weekend ... read here May 18, 2010: The Search For Poseidon In North Carolina ... At the 2010 North Carolina Open Water Championships in Seven Lakes will add a 1K relay and a special Poseidon Award to the top swimmer who compete in ... read here May 18, 2010: Swimming Against The Tide In Massachusetts ... The multi-discipline Against the Tide is a popular fundraising event to benefit the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition ... read here May 17, 2010: The Brits Are Coming, The Brits Are Coming ... The British open water swimmers dominated the first leg of the 2010 European Open Water Swimming Cup held in Eilat, Israel on May 8th... read here May 17, 2010: Swimming Down The River Nene ... Mark Robson, Dan Martin and a slew of Outdoor Swimming Society members met up for a leisurely swim in River Nene ... read here May 17, 2010: Super Swim Series ... The Super Swim Series is limiting its three swims to the 1000 athletes in each event. Set in the Princes Club in Middlesex, England, All About Triathlons is adding this new 1.5K and 3.8K ... read here May 17, 2010: Duel In The Pool Before The Open Water ... At this weekend's Charlotte UltraSwim Meet in North Carolina, USA Swimming fans saw a precursor to a wonderfully unpredictable USA Swimming National ... read here May 17, 2010: La Tuque, A 24-hour Race in 15 degrees C (60 degrees F) Water ... Older generations often tell younger people of the tremendous trials and tribulations of their youth and how much more difficult it was "in their day" than ... read here May 16, 2010: James Kegley, Withstanding The Test Of Time ... The annual Chris Greene Lake Swim in Virginia was established in 1977 and has served as the U.S. Masters Swimming national 2-mile cable championships ... read here May 16, 2010: European Open Water Swimming Championships ... The 2010 European Swimming Championships will be held in Balatonfüred, Hungary in 2010. Europe is at the epicenter of open water swimming ... read here May 16, 2010: The English Channel World Record Still Standing At 6:57... Brendan Capell, one of the fastest marathon swimmers in the world, will take a shot at Petar Stoychev's world record in the English Channel this summer ... read here May 16, 2010: A Humanitarian Swim From Oceania To Asia ... "It's been a very big adventure, an incredible experience," said Marcos Diaz after the first leg of his Swim Across the Continents project ... read here May 15, 2010: Marcos Diaz Successful From Papua New Guinea To Indonesia ... Yesterday from Indonesia, Marcos Diaz o the Dominican Republic reported that he successfully completed the first of his ... read here May 15, 2010: The Pain of Payne ... In an interview with the British press who is really helping to promote open water swimming n Great Britain, world 10K champion and Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne said ... read here May 15, 2010: Thousands Take To The Open Water In Taiwan ... Nearly 4,000 people swam 3K Kenting Sea Swim in Taiwan's beautiful Kenting National Park. The mass participation swim was held in the southern Taiwan ... read here May 15, 2010: FINA's Influence In The Triathlon World ... World Triathlon Corporation, owners of the Ironman and Ironman 70.3 Series, announced modifications to several rules and regulations relating to the swim ... read here May 14, 2010: In Endurance Athletes We Trust ... President and founder Matt Nelson provided an anniversary report of the remarkable last year of The Endurance Trust, an organization with a unique mission and wonderful goals ... read here May 14, 2010: FINA Open Water Swimming Seminar In Roberval ... FINA will host an Open Water Swimming Seminar on July 19th Hôtel Château Roberval during the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships ... read here May 14, 2010: Circuito Gaúcho de Maratonas Aquáticas in 2010 ... Francismar Siviero reported on last weekend's final leg of the Rio Grande do Sul Circuit 2010 started on Leblon Beach in Brazil ... read here May 14, 2010: Partnering On A Trisolothon ... Doug Woodring, who has founded a variety of ocean-related endeavors and entities from The Open Water Energy's Sheko Challenge and The Clean Half to Project Kaisai and ... read here May 14, 2010: Focused Preparation For The Sea of Cortez Swim ... 6 swimmers - 3 from Mexico and 3 from the US - will be together on the high seas: between 30 - 40 hours. Teamwork and camaraderie will be the highest ... read here May 13, 2010: The Next Generation in the Butterfield Sea Swim ... Marisa Poole and Kevin Poole (shown on left) swam together amid 170 swimmers in the 800-meter Butterfield Sea Swim in the ... read here May 13, 2010: Creating A Training Feedback Loop ... Mike Doane, the USA Triathlon Resident Program swim coach and 2007 USA Triathlon Coach of the Year, coached Andy Potts to gold ... read here May 13, 2010: Big Blueseventy Buoys ... These large 2-meter high x 1-meter wide turn buoys by blueseventy are hard to miss in the open water and are another step towards making open ... read here May 13, 2010: Training For A Crossing Of The Sea Of Cortez ... Six swimmers - 3 from Mexico and 3 from the US - will be attempting to set the world's longest ocean swimming relay across the Sea of Cortez - 182 K from west ... read here May 12, 2010: Extreme Conditions Overcome From Robben Island To Big Bay ... "To all who finished: well done. To those who didn't, don’t worry, Robben Island is going nowhere. It was a great effort. Don’t give up ... read here May 12, 2010: CAST Is Set For Open Water In Idaho ... Coeur d'Alene Area Swim Team in the Idaho Panhandle is hosting the CAST Classic Open Water ... read here May 12, 2010: Great North Swim Is Tourism Event Of The Year ... The British Gas Great North Swim is not only a great open water swimming competition and celebration, but it also ... read here May 12, 2010: Tri It, You'll Like It ... TRISWIM will provide two unique stations with its innovative products for the athletes at the 2K and 4K Open Water Pursuit races in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California on June ... read here May 12, 2010: Open Water Swimming Spectator Boats Filling Up Fast ... The Spectator Boats for the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California are filling up fast ... read here May 11, 2010: More This Year Than Last Century ... As Anne Cleveland (standing on far left with world 5K champion Melissa Gorman on far right) will explain at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in ... read here May 11, 2010: Giving It All For A Double-Double ... Anne Cleveland of La Jolla, California already has one double-crossing of the English Channel under her belt. This August ... read here May 10, 2010: Good On You, Pool-Mate ... Pool-Mate is one of the most innovative and useful products to hit the swimming market in years. It is selling off the shelves ... read here May 10, 2010: Pulling His Weight For Pugh ... Lewis Pugh is on his way up Mount Everest to do his 1-mile swim in a glacial lake at 17,000-foot altitude. As Kevin Murphy said ... read here May 10, 2010: Open Water Swimming Seminar At The World Championships ... FINA will host an Open Water Swimming Seminar at the 6th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Roberval, Quebec ... read here May 10, 2010: POW, A Hit With West Coast Swimmers ... POW (Pool Open Water) is sweeping across America as swimmers and triathletes start to gear up for the summer open water swimming and triathlon season ... read here May 10, 2010: Swim 4 Freedom In Lake Geneva ... The proceeds from the Swim 4 Freedom will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to support America’s Army, Navy ... read here
May 9, 2010: Marathon Hall Of Famers Leave An Amazing Legacy ... In arguably the most diverse class of inductees in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, the mix of men and women ... read here May 9, 2010: Open Water Galore At The International Swimming Hall Of Fame ... At last night's International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a crowd of 450 luminaries and aquatic enthusiasts ... read here May 8, 2010: Drafting, Positioning, Navigating and Pacing Clinics ... Prior to the new Open Water Pursuit races after the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships, there will be ... read here May 8, 2010: New Swim Series in the Lake District ... The EPIC Lakes Swim Series is a new series of open water events at three different venues in England's Lake District. The ... read here May 8 2010: Sandycove Island Donates to Lost At Sea ... This week on the south coast of Ireland in one of the emerging global hot spots of marathon swimming, the organizers of The Edge Sports Sandycove Island Challenge Swim ... read here May 8, 2010: Mike Spalding, Totally Enveloped by Earth ... Mike Spalding, an inductee in the Hawaii Swimming Hall of Fame for his seven channel swims (out of eight) in the islands, explained why ... read here May 7, 2010: Penny Dean at the Global Open Water Swimming Championships ... Penny Lee Dean, one of the most remarkable women in marathon swimming history, is set to speak at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference ... read here May 7, 2010: Lewis Pugh and his Dzoopkyos Head Up Mt. Everest ... Lewis Pugh will begin his trek up Mount Everest today to the 17,000-foot glacial lake where he will do his unprecedented swim ... read here May 6, 2010: Swimmers as Heroes, From Asia to Europe ... Colin Hill, head of the Great Swim and guest speaker at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference, took part in ... read here May 6, 2010: Taraneh Hashemi, Willing and Able ... Taraneh Hashemi is a 56-year-old swimming coach in Tehran, Iran with a very simple open water swimming goal ... read here May 6, 2010: Swimming 182K for Good Causes in the Sea of Cortez ... The Swim Sea of Cortez is only a few weeks away. The 182K world record relay attempt across the Sea of Cortez in Mexico is ready to go announce Vito Bialla ... read here May 6, 2010: Midnight Race across Lake Pingvallasund ... The 5K Þingvallasund Swim starts at midnight on July 16th at the Lake National Park in Iceland ... read here May 6, 2010: Nathaniel Waring Sets Record from Tahiti to Moorea ... Nathaniel Waring swam a little over 10 miles (17K) from Tahiti to its sister island of Moorea in 4 hours and 57 minutes under near ideal conditions ... read here May 5, 2010: Tri Girl Tells Swimmer Guy Why She is Good ... Swimmer Guy tries to give Tri Girl some standard open water swimming advice ... read here May 5, 2010: Dolphining With Your Hands and Feet ... Gerry Rodrigues, the founder and organizer of Tower 26 club who runs highly specific open water swimming workouts for triathletes ... read here May 5, 2010: GoSwim with Fran Crippen in the Open Water ... Selfless Fran Crippen teamed up with GoSwim.TV to create an educational and illustrative open water swimming DVD. In GoSwim's Open Water with Fran Crippen ... read here May 5, 2010: Cold As Ice, Tough As Aussies ... Members of the Black-ice Open Water Swimming Club, based in Black Rock, Australia (outside of Melbourne), are one tough, dedicated group of open water swimmers ... read here May 5, 2010: Tigers Don't Eat Lions in the Open Water ... Tiger sharks, whose usual diet consists of fish, seals, birds, smaller sharks, squid and turtles, do not eat lionfish. They certainly do not look tasty ... read here May 4, 2010: Loch Ness Ladies Swimming for Afghan Women & Children ... An all-female team of swimmers from the Serpentine Swimming Club in London will swim 23 miles (37K) across the famous Loch Ness in Scotland this ... read here May 4, 2010: Winning By Cheating ... This news is nothing new in the world of sports, but it is refreshing to read about an scientifically rigorous, peer-review study that was recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine about the ... read here May 3, 2010: FINA Launches New Website ... FINA has launched a website with a new image and improved navigation tools for swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open water swimming ... read here May 3, 2010: Swimming Singleys Shine in Texas Open Water ... Claire Singley and her brother Ted help the Carroll High School open water team capture the American Swimming Association Open Water Swimming Texas High School State Championships held ... read here May 3, 2010: 2010 U.S. Masters Swimming 10K Open Water Championships ... The always competitive, yet collegial, 2010 U.S. Masters Swimming 10K National Championships will be held this year in Morse Reservoir in ... read here May 2, 2010: Male and Female SuperFish in Byron Bay ... Ky Hurst was king of the SuperFish at the 2.2K Byron Bay Winter Whales Ocean Swim Classic in a classic Australian ocean swim ... read here May 2, 2010: Shooting America's Sweetheart in the Open Water ... Photographer Don Le worked with makeup artist Jenny Luna, hair stylist Kristin Don and Jenny Luna, wardrobe stylist Roxy Flores and wardrobe designer Kristin Don ... read here May 2, 2010: A Refreshing Vote for Project Kaisei ... Project Kaisei, the brainchild of George Orbelian, Mary Crowley and Doug Woodring, was nominated by Pepsi for a US$250,000 award to remove tons of floating debris from our oceans ... read here May 1, 2010: The Beauty of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim ... The top Australian ocean swimmers have dominated the annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim in the recent past with absolutely dominating victories by Trent Grimsey and Luane Rowe in 2008 and 2009 ... read here May 1, 2010: Long-standing Record in Molokai Broken by Chris Palfrey ... Chris Palfrey broke one of the longest standing records in marathon swimming this month when he did a 12:53 crossing of the Molokai (Kaiwi) Channel ... read here May 1, 2010: Beauty of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim ... The top Australian ocean swimmers have dominated the annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim in the recent past with absolutely dominating victories by ... read here May 1, 2010: Open Water Swimming Almanac ... A special Open Water Swimming Almanac - full of unique and largely unknown information, data, charts and photographs of special interest to swimmers, coaches ... read here May 1, 2010: Open Water Seminar at 2010 World Championships ... FINA will conduct an all-day open water swimming seminar at its 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships in Roberval, Canada on July 19th for its guests including athletes, coaches, trainers, physicians and team leaders participating in the championships ... read here April 30, 2010: Great Opportunities in A Great Swim ... Only 1,000 entrants are available at the British Gas Great London Swim that may fill up by early June. The British Gas Great London Swim takes place in ... read here April 30, 2010: The Swim Brief on the USA Swimming Championships ... The Athlete Village hosted a discussion about the upcoming Open Water Pursuit and the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in ... read here April 30, 2010: The Relentless Ups and Downs of Open Water Swimming ... These photos of Penny Palfrey's 72-mile Kaieiewaho Channel attempt between the islands of Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii shows the ups and downs of open ocean swimming ... read here April 29, 2010: StingMate for Stingrays ... Smithwick's StingMate®, one of the sponsors of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference and the Open Water Pursuit that is part of the USA ... read here April 28, 2010: 38 and Counting at the World Summer Games ... To date, 38 Special Olympics athletes who specialize in open water swimming from Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, El Salvador, Gibraltar, Greece ... read here April 28, 2010: Mexican National Team Named for World Championships ... As the Northern Hemisphere ambles into summer, 2008 Olympian Luis Escobar and Alejandra González won the Mexican national 10K championships in beautiful ... read here April 28, 2010: U Swim, I Swim, We All Swim ... At Least In England ... David Quartermain, a Manchester, England-based coach, will offer open water swimming sessions (USwim) throughout the summer months in Salford and Boundary Park ... read here April 28, 2010: 12 Miles of Freezing Cold and Sharks ... If there is anyone who is training properly, diligently and passionately for their upcoming marathon swim, it has got to be Karen Rogers. Karen is ... read here April 28, 2010: How'd You Do It? How'd You Feel? Listen Live ... Radio host Beth-Ann Kozlovich will conduct a fascinating interview with Penny and Chris Palfrey on ... read here April 29, 2010: The StingMate Story ... Smithwick's StingMate® is one of the sponsors of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference. The ... read here April 28, 2010: Fast, Fit and Fun in Lady Bird Lake ... Dr. Keith Bell, Race Director of The Money Box Cap 2k Open Water Race in Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas predicts some exciting racing over this weekend. The next generation of ... read here April 28, 2010: Lake Zhanka Solo Swim by Zhange Jie ... In a news story from Reuters, 23-year-old Chinese swimming coach Zhang Jie from the Beijing Sports University is planning to swim 80K across Lake Khanka that may take her up to 40 hours ... read here April 27, 2010: Two Swimmers in the Channel ... Two Swimmers is a documentary film about an inspirational true story of a young swimmer and his coach as they attempt to swim the English Channel in 2005 and the dramatic events that ... read here April 27, 2010: Cleaning Up Our Oceans ... Doug Woodring posted a video teaser for the October 16th Clean Half extreme marathon swim in Hong Kong. The Clean Half is a 15K relay ... read here April 26, 2010: Africa Ice Swim Calls for Adventure Swimmers ... Ram Barkai's innovations continue coming. This time, he is organizing the Africa Ice Swim in July. According to my books, an ice swim is a minimum ... read here April 26, 2010: Cayman Island's New Website ... The Cayman Island Amateur Swimming Association launched its new website, see here ... read here April 26, 2010: Olympian Splash and Dash in Austin, Texas ... The Splash and Dash is regularly held every third Tuesday of each month to benefit the large number of ... read here April 26, 2010: Western Australian Open Water Heroine, Barbara Pellnick ... Peter King of Pinjarra in Western Australia tells of an incredible swimmer - Barbara Pellick, a hydrology technician for Alcoa. Barbara, who started off as ... read here April 26, 2010: Elite Open Water Swimmers in The Athlete Village ... The Athlete Village will use its technology and expertise to provide an educational review and informative analysis of the men's and women's 10K races at the ... read here April 26, 2010: Oh That Hurts, But the Smile Remains ... Penny Palfrey shows a few of her Portuguese Man-o-War wounds after reaching land on Kauai, but her smile remains despite her disappointment in not completing her ... read here April 25, 2010: The Beauty of Penny Palfrey's Kaieiewaho Channel Swim ... The raw beauty of the Penny Palfrey's Kaieiewaho Channel attempt, 72 miles (115K) between the islands of Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii is...indescribable ... read here April 25, 2010: How Time Flies in the Open Water ... Lewis Pugh, one of the world's greatest aquatic adventurers of the modern era, will be instantaneously informing the world's media and his followers ... read here April 25, 2010: Lining Up to Cross the Lake in British Columbia ... Since its beginning in 1949 as part of the Kelowna Regatta, the 2.1K Across The Lake Swim in Lake Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia ... read here April 25, 2010: Long-lost Trophy Recovered for The Wash ... Paul Hopfensperger, founder of the International Open Water Swimming Association (IOWSA) announced that IOWSA found and now owns ... read here April 25, 2010: Muddied but Safe in the Orinoco River Swim ... In San Felix, Venezuela, 805 swimmers started to cross the Orinoco River where it means the Caroni River in the 3.1K (1.9-mile), but only 520 reached ... read here April 24, 2010: On the Other Side of Oahu, Chris Succeeds ... As Penny Palfrey stepped off of Kaena Point on the northwest side of Oahu swimming away from the capital island of Hawaii, her husband Chris was swimming ... read here April 24, 2010: Heroic Effort Stopped by Portuguese Man-o-War Venom ... After a remarkable solo attempt by modern-day adventurer Penny Palfrey, the 72-mile Kaieiewaho Channel remains one of marathon swimming's most difficult feats ... read here April 24, 2010: Naji Ali, Looking Up in a World of Color ... Naji Ali, a member of Naji Ali, has two upcoming swims in San Francisco Bay in support of the Josh Project that encourages low income ... read here April 24, 2010: Lewis Pugh on Twitter and Facebook ... In two days, Lewis Pugh begins the first part of his unprecedented swim to undertake an incredibly 1K swim in a glacial lake under the summit of Mout Everest ... read here April 24, 2010: SwimTrekking, A New Dimension in Open Water Swimming ... Claudio D'ambrosio of Portici, Italy created the SwimTrekking Facebook Group where SwimTrekkers can share information ... read here April 23, 2010: Dan Martin's Global Triathlon Delayed ... While Penny Penny is completing her final preparations for tomorrow's assault of the 72-mile Kaieiewaho Channel in Hawaii, economic considerations led Dan Martin to announce the postponement of his highly anticipated Global Triathlon where ... read here April 23, 2010: Swimming At High Tide ... Dr. Harry Huffaker of Honolulu gave us his impression of Peter Frayne, a retired police officer whose beat was along the Dover waterfront ... read here April 23, 2010: Colorful Cayman Channel Crossing ... Kate Alexander reported that seven swimmers ventured past beautiful reefs from Cayman Brac to Little Cayman, the two Sister Islands to ... read here April 23, 2010: 10K Added to the New York Open Water Championships ... Long-time open water swimming promoter Bea Hartigan announced the addition of a 10K swim at the 2010 Metropolitan Swimming Age-Group Open Water Championships ... read here April 23, 2010: A Long Half Mile in the Cayman Islands ... Last weekend, 53 swimmers faced wind and rain for the annual sea swim on Cayman Brac, the second-largest of the three Cayman Islands with a resident population of ... read here April 22, 2010: The Magic of Open Water Swimming by Ram Barkai ... Ram Barkai, sponsor of the tough 7.5K Cadiz Freedom Swim in South Africa, will speak on the The Magic of Open Water Swimming at the ... read here April 22, 2010: Where Hypothermia Is A Reality ... Ram Barkai, one of the speakers at the 2010 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California, is also the ... read here April 22, 2010: Oman Welcomes Asian Open Water Swimmers ... The Oman Swimming Association will host over 80 swimmers from 17 countries at three major open water championships this weekend ... read here April 22, 2010: Beautiful Bounty in Barbados ... Sonia O’Neal, President of the Barbados Amateur Swimming Association, announced the 5K Barbados Open Water International Swim from the popular ... read here April 21, 2010: Triathlon Credits at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference ... USA Triathlon is offering Continuing Education Units for its certified coaches to attend the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California. USA Triathlon describes the Conference as ... read here April 21, 2010: Swimming Apart Yet Swimming Together ... After speaking with Rick Shema - The Weather Guy, Penny Palfrey's 72-mile swim in the middle of the Pacific Ocean from Oahu to Kauai is a go for ... read here April 21, 2010: America's Distance Queen Proves Popular ... In a recent online poll on Swimnetwork, crossover swimmer Chloe Sutton was voted to be the most impressive swimmer at the recent USA Swimming Grand Prix event ... read here April 20, 2010: Wickham, Great Swimming Genes over the Generations ... Open water freestyler...body surfer and promoter...world-record high diver...surfer shaper...Alick Wickham was truly an open water swimming innovator and pioneer in the 19th century ... read here April 20, 2010: Somewhere Out There in the Monstrous Pacific ... Jeff Kozlovich, Penny Palfrey's paddleboard guide on her solo 72-mile Kaieiewaho Channel swim, announced that Penny and her team are ready to go ... read here April 20, 2010: Elongate Is The Safest Style ... Karen Rogers continues to prepare well for her upcoming 30-mile risk-filled swim from the Farallones Island to Aquatic Park near ... read here April 20, 2010: Maraton Jarak to Sabac The FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event in Sabac, Serbia has been rescheduled to August 1st. Formally known as ... read here April 20, 2010: Nokia Calls On Open Water Swimming ... Nokia and Human Race are staging the 2-mile Nokia Thames Swim as part of the Nokia Outdoor Series, a selection of events designed to celebrate the great outdoors ... read here April 19, 2010: What to Wear at Open Water Swims from June? ... Starting from the June 1st, 2010 for FINA open water swimming competitions, the following rules apply ... Swimwear ... read here April 19, 2010: We Have Won ... One extremely liberal view in the open water swimming world is to define marathon swimming as a swim which pushes the swimmer further than what they initially thought possible ... read here April 19, 2010: Haiku to a Yacker ... Sgt. Jim Cowhig, a Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association swimmer Newburyport, Massachusetts wrote a haiku about kayakers. A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry ... read here April 19, 2010: Ode to My Yacker ... Phil White, the enthusiastic visionary behind the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) and last week's "Be Kind to Your Yacker Week", created a wonderful poem celebrating ... read here April 19, 2010: A Battle of South American Open Water Titans ... Olympian Andreina Pinto of Venezuela and Olympian Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil had two hard, exciting battles in the 5K and 10K races at the IX South American Games held in a reservoir next to Guatapé, west of Medellin, Colombia ... read here April 18, 2010: Marital Bliss in the Open Water ... Penny and Chris Palfrey have established a special sort of marital bliss with bonds that go deep. Deep as in real deep. Channel deep. "We both know what the deal is ... read here April 18, 2010: Closer Calls in Open Water Swimming ... Contemporary civilian Global Positioning System (GPS) devices can be off by 5 meters or more. Reportedly in May, the United States Air Force will beging launching the ... read here April 18, 2010: Open Water Swimming - Clocks or Clouds? ... Sir Karl Raimund Popper was a professor at the London School of Economics and is considered one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. We believe he precisely and inadvertently described the difference between pool swimming and open water swimming ... read here April 18, 2010: Top Times in Sumidero Pro Marathon ... Petar Stoychev won the 15K FINA Grand Prix in Sumidero Canyon's meandering river in 3:19:52. Spain's Diego Nogueira was second (3:20:16) and ... read here April 17, 2010: Petar Stoychev and Pilar Geijo Win in Sumidero ... Petar Stoychev continued his winning ways by taking top honors in the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race in Sumidero Canyon, Mexico. Pilar Geijo of Argentina won ... read here April 17, 2010: Eva Fabian Edges Poliana Okimoto in Miami ... Race Director Robert Strauss promised a good show and he delivered at today's Nike Swim Miami. In the women's 10K race, the outcome was not decided until literally the final steps. Eva Fabian ... read here April 17, 2010: Protection and Enjoyment of Oceans, Waves and Beaches ... Jim Moriarty, Chief Executive Officer of the Surfrider Foundation explains the mission of the Surfrider Foundation here ... read here April 17, 2010: The Open Water Majesty of Mexico ... Federacion Mexicana de Natacion is hosting the majestically beautiful Sumidero Canyon FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix in southern Mexico today ... read here April 17, 2010: Lending a Helping Hand in Hawaii ... David DeFelippo (28) from Texas, Margaret Dudley (28) and David Saxton (25) from Pennsylvania, Matthew McDole (27) from Colorado ... read here April 16, 2010: Swimming Canada is Getting Ready ... Swimming Canada opened its open water swimming portal here. Canada will have a lot to report on this ... read here April 16, 2010: Florida Open Water Swimming All-Stars to be Selected ... Sid Cassidy reports that in addition to the tough competition at the elite level at tomorrow's Nike Swim Miami, the event is also ... read here April 16, 2010: Background to Groundbreaking Legislation ... This Wednesday, the New Hampshire Legislature passed legislation to provide the right-of-way to swimmers in the open water ... read here April 16, 2010: Open Water from East to West in Florida ... This Saturday in Florida there are two major races on the American open water swimming calendar. On the west coast, the ... read here April 15, 2010: You're Going to Love It in New Hampshire ... Open water swimmer Gregory Whitman helped push through a remarkable legislative bill through the state government in the New Hampshire that enhances safety of open water swimmers by giving them the right-of-way ... read here April 15, 2010: Warm-hearted Polar Bear Legend Passes Away ... Donna Littlejohn of the Daily Breeze reported that local Cabrillo Beach (California) legend Ray Falk passed away on Tuesday at the age of 87 ... read here April 14, 2010: Dodging Crocs and Hippos and Doing Good in Lake Malawi ... In 1992, Lewis Pugh, the world's foremost pioneering swimmer, and Otto Thaning, the fastest English Channel swimmer over the age of 50 (10:29), became the first men to swim ... read here April 14, 2010: Open Water Swimming in Shangri-La ... 27 Japanese open water swimmers completed an unbelievably gorgeous 15K Borneo Rainforest Ocean Swim Tour. Their aquatic trek took them island-hopping from ... read here April 14, 2010: Swimsuits in the USA Open Water Swimming Championships ... The USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships will comply with the new FINA rule regarding swimsuits for open water swimming competitions. This new rule begins June 1, 2010, for both men and women and is as follows ... read here
April 14, 2010: Going Below the Surface of the Oceans ... Disneynature is releasing a film on Earth Day 2010, April 22nd, that all open water swimmers can appreciate - OCEANS that chronicles the mysteries of the marine world ... read here
April 14, 2010: A Monster of an Open Water Swim ... The Eau Claire YMCA will host the 20th annual Manitou Monster Lake Swim this July 11th. The 2-mile hexagonal loop swim is held ... read here April 13, 2010: Stretto Swimming ... With the maximum limit of swimmers reached and over 200 swimmers already on the waiting list, the traditional Traversata dello Stretto is a highly popular ... read here April 13, 2010: Irish Long Distance Swimming in Lough Sheelin ... The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association and Swim Ireland announced the Irish National 10k Championship Swim along with ... read here April 13, 2010: Open Water Swimming Coming of Age ... In the second issue of the new FINA Aquatics World Magazine, Paolo Barelli, the FINA Honorary Secretary and former world record holder, wrote an editorial on the progress in swimming and the open water ... read here April 13, 2010: Courage + Character + Commitment = 100% Penny ... Penny Palfrey will be swimming 72 miles through rough waters documented with having plenty of Great White Sharks, tiger sharks and ... read here April 13, 2010: Enter the Fantasy Swim Contest in Tampa Bay ... Enter the Fantasy Swim contest for this Saturday's 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim. The person who guesses the ... read here April 12, 2010: Be Kind to Your Kayaker Week Begins ... Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) reminds the global open water swimming community that Yacker Week begins this ... read here April 12, 2010: Dottie York Scholarship Applications Open ... The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation proudly announced the establishment of the Dottie York Scholarship Fund. Dottie, a wonderful women who ... read here April 12, 2010: Forward Ho to Canada ... Chad Ho, a rising star on the global open water swimming scene, proved himself the star of the field with a 10-minute victory in the Telkom South Africa National Open Water 10K Swim in ... read here April 12, 2010: Great Barrier Reef Swim Cancelled ... Rob Hutchings announced that after months of setbacks, he has indefinitely postponed the Great Barrier Reef Swim. Budget and logistical issues ultimately presented ... read here April 12, 2010: Open Water Swimming in the American Desert ... The first open water swim in the 2010 American desert season is coming up on May 1st in Arizona. DCB Adventures organizes five open water swims, called the Arizona Open Water Swim Series ... read here April 12, 2010: Sea Swimming in the Cayman Islands ... 145 people completed the LIME Sea Swim this weekend under typically perfect weather and gorgeous water conditions. Sponsored by LIME, two lucky swimmers went ... read here April 11, 2010: Rethinking and Reshaping NYC via the Open Water ... Rachel Golub of Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers, shown on left in the white bikini only moments before she swam in ... read here April 11, 2010: Bid Aloha to the Swimmers in Long Beach ... At the 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California, there will be national team spots up for grabs, including spots ... read here April 10, 2010: Doing It Again in Cuba ... The Copa Master de Natación (International Masters Swimming Cup) held in March in Varadero, Cuba and was described as a huge success. As a result ... read here April 10, 2010: Bellisimo! Coppa Sicilia's 4 Special Open Water Swims ... The third annual international Coppa Sicilia will be held in September off the islands of Favignana, located about 7K ... read here April 9, 2010: Center of Open Water Excellence at SIU ... In a land far away from the East and West Coasts of America, there is a rapidly developing open water swimming program headed by Rick Walker. At Southern Illinois University, Rick has two FINA ... read here April 9, 2010: Mass Starts in the Early Days of Triathlon ... Way back in the early days of multi-discipline endurance sports (i.e., the early 1980's of triathlon), we heard that 1,200 triathletes took to the waters of Marine Stadium in ... read here April 9, 2010: Bud Beatty Turns into a PurpleSwim ... Tim Beatty announced the renaming of the Bud Beatty Memorial Swim to the PurpleSwim Baltimore on August 8th on Rocky Point Beach and Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Proceeds from the 1- and 2-mile charity swims go to the ... read here April 9, 2010: A Lovely Good Show at the Llandudno Sea Swim ... The blueseventy Llandudno Sea Swim in June is a 1.5K swim around the bay at Llandudno in North Wales ... read here April 8, 2010: In the Midst of Open Water Greatness ... At the International Swimming Hall of Fame and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies on May 9th, an amazing group of aquatic athletes and many accomplished marathon swimmers will gather in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the ... read here April 8, 2010: What an Adventure in Sitka, Alaska ... Kelsey Jacobsen, an AmeriCorps Member for Coastal Zone Management for the Sitka Conservation Society in Alaska, is helping organize the 10K Sitka Sound Adventure Swim in Sitka, Alaska ... read here April 8, 2010: Puppies, Babies and Night Shifts - Penny's Key to Success ... Throughout marathon swimming history from Matthew Webb in 1875 to Philip Rush in 1986, men have proven themselves to be incredible marathon swimmers ... read here April 7, 2010: Lewis Pugh, Achieving the Impossible ... Simon & Schuster will release Lewis Pugh's fascinating new book, Achieving the Impossible A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth on May 4th in London. The title of the 352-page hardcover book truly sums up Lewis' life and accomplishments. A former Special Air Service soldier who is ... read here
April 7, 2010: Swimming from Point to LaPoint in Lake Superior ... Can you swim 2 miles across the largest lake in the planet? That is the question that ... read here April 7, 2010: Enjoy Sea Swimming in Kenting, Taiwan ... The annual 3K Kenting Sea Swim is coming up on April 25th in the beautifully tropical Kenting National Park in the southernmost part of Taiwan. The mass participation swim is a 1.5K straight out to the Pacific Ocean and ... read here April 6, 2010: Luke Nisbet, Buggered but Victorious ... In a a new twist on the sport, Michael Zoetmulder created quite an event at the MTN Nelson Mandela Bay Splash Festival in South Africa this weekend. After hosting the inaugural Ocean Racing Series World Championships ... read here April 6, 2010: Canada's Philippe Dubreuil Retires After A Successful Career ... Philippe Dubreuil of Canada competed for Canada at two World Swimming Championships, a Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and a Pan American Games, always representing ... read here April 6, 2010: Colorful Future in the Open Water ... Fashion, hair, cars, makeup, home interiors ... humans like color. Humans enjoy color. Humans need color. Humans LOVE color. And blueseventy is leading ... read here April 5, 2010: Enjoying Open Water Swimming On the Jersey Shore ... Andreas of the New Jersey Race Club announced the Triple Crown series of the New Jersey Race Club, a series of 1-mile ocean swims along the New Jersey shore. With hundreds of ... read here April 5, 2010: Robert Lucas Caught Short in the Ohio River ... WCPO of Ohio reported that William Short and Robert Lucas were arrested as a result of some interstate swimming between Ohio and ... read here April 5, 2010: Training for the English Channel ... People all over the world are currently training for major channel swims and other long-distance swims all over the world. The English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Cook Strait, Gibraltar Strait and Tsugaru Channel - and several dozens of other ... read here April 4, 2010: Swimming in the Wild Kingdom to San Francisco ... After a slew of attempts and two successful solo swims by Stuart Evans and Ted Erikson from the Farallones Islands to the California mainland in the 1960's, the open water swimming community generally shifted their interests from the shark-filled, cold, rough waters west of San Francisco to ... read here April 4, 2010: Melissa Gorman Wins Ocean Racing Series World Championship: World 5K champion Melissa Gorman of Australia demonstrated her speed outswimming New Zealand’s Brenda Russell in the inaugural 2K Ocean Racing Series World Championship race at the four-day international MTN Nelson Mandela Bay Splash Festival in ... read here April 4, 2010: World Champions Dominate the Bell Buoy Challenge ... 9-time world marathon swimming champion Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria took a roundabout course to capture his second victory in two days. Peter won the Nelson Mandela Bay Bell Buoy Challenge under cold and ... read here April 4, 2010: King of the Sea Scenes (Rei do Mar Desafio) ... Pedro Rego Monteiro and Virgilio de Castilho, two wonderfully creative entrepreneurs and endurance athletes, produce one of the world's greatest open water swimming event, the Rei Do Mar Desafio (King of the Sea Challenge). Watch ... read here April 4, 2010: Fran Crippen Unselfishly Pulling Double Duty ... USA Swimming announced its roster and staff for its 2010 National Open Water Select Camp to be held in Long Beach, California before its national 5K and 10K open water swimming championships ... read here
April 3, 2010: Legends of Open Water Gather in the Hall of Fame ... On May 9th at the International Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies, America's Paul Asmuth, the most dominant marathon swimmer on the professional circuit in the 1980's with 7 World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation titles, and England's venerable Kevin Murphy, King of the Channel with 32 crossings and more than 73 swims over 15 miles, will be deservedly ... read here April 3, 2010: Creating a Purple Patch in the Open Water ... Matt Dixon, founder of Purple Patch Fitness, will speak at the Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on June 5th. Matt, widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading coaches for endurance athletes, will talk about training from a metabolic standpoint for optimal race preparation ... read here
April 3, 2010: Open Water Swimmers Doing Well Heading to Long Beach ... In Columbus, Ohio at the USA Swimming Columbus Grand Prix swim meet, part of the USA Swimming Grand Prix Series, the women's 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle events gave a bit of an inkling of what to expect at the USA Swimming National 5K and 10K Open Water Swimming Championships ... read here April 2, 2010: Why Open Water? ... Experienced open water swimmers and newcomers tell us why they do open water. In the Out of the Box video shown below, a 90-minute DVD ... read here April 2, 2010: Staying Paulsitive ... Paul Hekimian, founder of the LA Tri Club, one of the hippest, most socially engaging, competitive triathlon teams in America, if not the world, will speak at the ... read here April 1, 2010: Search for the Monongy ... Active masters swimmer Karen Longwell announced the Search for Monongy 1.2, 2.4 and White Knuckle Open Water Swim on the Allegheny River at the North Shore Riverfront Park in Pittsburg ... read here March 31, 2010: Be Kind to Your Yacker ... Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) announced the week of April 12th to be "Be Kind to Your Yacker Week” - a very appropriate public appreciation of all the kayakers, escort boat pilots, support crew and paddlers who help solo swimmers and relays achieve their marathon ... read here March 31, 2010 A Very Special POW Workout ... Karen Pratz of the Ocean City Recreation Department at the Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center in New Jersey runs a fantastic Special Olympics swimming program with the ... read here March 30, 2010: FINA's World Aquatic Conference ... FINA announced online registration for its first FINA World Aquatics Convention in Punta del Este, Uruguay is now open for the September ... read here March 30, 2010: AWF Silesia Open Water in Poland ... Open water swimming continues to find passionate enthusiasts who are helping the sport grow ... read here March 30, 2010: Open Water Swimming Across Borders in Bosphorus ... The 6.5K Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim 2010 from Asia to Europe will hold its 22nd race in July 18th. Swimmers cross the Bosphorus (or Bosporus),from the north to the south. With the course so wide, the swimmer obviously decide to swim off in different directions ... read here March 29, 2010: Oh Wow - POW ... We have been advocating POW Swimming (Pool Open Water) for years, especially for those triathletes or swimmers who do not have easy access to open water swimming ... read here March 29, 2010: Out of the Box and into the Open Water ... USA Swimming produced a variety of tips, tactics and training methodologies in an open water swimming video called ... read here March 29, 2010: Distance Matters with the Angry Fish ... Whiskey Joe's Thirteenth Annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim is scheduled on April 17th ... read here March 29, 2010: Travessia dos Fortos along the 2016 Olympic Course ... Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach is one of the most famous beachfronts stretches in the world - and the wonderful site for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics ... read here March 28, 2010: Triathletes and Open Water - Endurance Cousins ... It is our core belief that every triathlete is an open water swimmer with additional interests and capabilities. While open water swimmers focus their efforts in the 70% ... read here March 28, 2010: Spectacular Views of the National Championships ... At the USA Swimming National 5K and 10K Open Water Swimming Championships and the Open Water Pursuit races in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California from June 4 – 6, Spectator Boats will be ... read here March 28, 2010: Sea Sprints in the Open Water ... After the USA Swimming National 5K Open Water Swimming Championships in Marine Stadium ... read here March 28, 2010: Pursuing Excellence in the Open Water ... After the USA Swimming National 5K Open Water Swimming Championships in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California ... read here March 27, 2010: Feeding Fast in the Open Water ... We have always advocated a standard four-step feeding process since the 1980's in order to feed ... read here March 27, 2010: The Etiquette of Drafting in the Open Water ... Among masters swimmers, there is occasionally discussions and debates about the etiquette of drafting in the open water ... read here
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