Battle Around Jersey For Holidays For Heroes
The race is on. In 2009 a team comprising of severely wounded British Servicemen and women from both Afghanistan, Iraq and other theatres of unpleasantness formed a team called Battle Back. They swum a...
View ArticleReal-life Tragedy And The Movies
Welcome was a popular French movie released in 2009 that was directed and written by Philippe Lioret starring Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi and Audrey Dana. The film depicts a young Kurdish refugee in...
View ArticleTrent Grimsey vs. Petar Stoychev – 3 Rounds In Open Water
Kevin Murphy and Des Renford had a renowned 3-swim battle years ago in Australia, across the English Channel and in Loch Ness. Renford won the first round in Sydney, Murphy had the upper hand in the...
View ArticleRound Jersey Military Relay Race – The Americans
The 41-mile Round Jersey military relay race is on. A small flotilla of military teams will challenge the elements in August under the guidance of Sgt. Mike James, a specialist physiotherapist from the...
View ArticleIrene Van Der Laan, Swimming Through The Generations
Irene Van Der Laan is an interior designer by trade, decorating and advising clients on how to make their homes and offices brighter and more organized in a way that reflects their personality. But...
View ArticleNeoprene Or Not, Trent Grimsey Is Hot
From the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere, from solo swimming to mass starts, with and without wetsuits, English Channel record holder Trent Grimsey is on the hottest streak in the open...
View ArticleOceans Seven List Heading Into The Cook Strait
With the English Channel, Catalina Channel, North Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel and Tsugaru Channel seasons over for 2012, the global Oceans Seven season heads into 2013 and the Cook...
View ArticleThe Media Waves Of Open Water Swimming
Figuratively speaking, open water swimming has always seemed to evolve in waves over the generations. Like the ocean swells and tides that swimmers face, it seems major media coverage of the sport...
View ArticleWhy Is It? Open Water Swimming Is Not New
The swimming community, sports fans and the media consider open water swimming to be a new sport. Introduced to the global sporting community at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, open water swimming is...
View ArticleSally Minty-Gravett Never Wants To Get Out
After Sally Minty-Gravett‘s record fifth English Channel crossing in five sequential decades, her legacy and longevity in the sport as an athlete, coach, and inspiration are clearly well-established....
View ArticleGeorge Hunihan, Keeping Focused And Keeping It Simple
George Hunihan of Cross Channel Advisors in Milford, Connecticut tells of one of his work colleagues, “He won a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics on a relay with Mark Spitz. He told me that swimming the...
View ArticlePáraic Casey Passes In The English Channel
Michael Oram, Chairman of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation, issued the following official statement. It is with great sadness the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation confirms the...
View ArticleWhat Might Happen In The English Channel In 2048?
The English Channel swimming community was delighted to hear of Nick Adams‘s eighth successful crossing of the Channel today. As the president of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation, he is...
View ArticleThank You Very Much, Peter Frayne
Peter Frayne (shown on left), a retired police officer whose beat was along the Dover waterfront who served as the Honorable Assistant Secretary of the Channel Swimming Association, passed away...
View ArticleOlympic Marathon Swims For Swimmers Of All Abilities
With the excitement of the Olympic marathon swim in the history books, amateurs of all ages, abilities and backgrounds have their own opportunities to participate in marathon swims around the world....
View ArticleSri Chinmoy To Be Inducted In The Hall Of Fame
Sri Chinmoy will be honored on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California at the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. The Honour Administrator, whose given name was Chinmoy...
View ArticleThe Loneliness Of A Marathon Swimmer
Training for a channel swim can be lonely. Hours and hours of solitary swimming, both back and forth in a pool and up and back along the shoreline. Alone with their own thoughts with limited vision, it...
View ArticleFollow Me…Escort Pilots On The High Seas
Escort pilots are the umbilical cord between the open water swimmer and safety. Without them, swimmers literally could not swim (straight) from Point A to Point B. They are the selfless, professional...
View ArticleMyths In The Open Water – Astronauts vs. Channel Swimmers
There is a certain amount of misinformation reported in the media about open water swimming. Open Water Source looked at the data in an attempt to distill fact from fiction, reality from rumor. One...
View ArticleOldies But Goodies In The Open Water
The members of the Half Century Club prove that some things do get better with age. Even if the weather does not cooperate. This year, 72-year-old George Thornton, a psychology professor at Colorado...
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