Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlotte Samuels, the youngest person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, released her first book of poetry entitled Earth & String. Like her role model Lynne Cox, Samuels combines writing with her ocean swimming career. “I love writing because I love language. I love the endless routes
Courtesy of Mackenzie Miller on behalf of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American channel swimmer Charlotte Samuels became the second person to cross the New York Bight Strait after Patricia Sener's pioneering swim a month earlier between Sandy Hook, New Jersey and Silver Point. Uncrossed by channel swimmers until now, this particular part of the
Come To Me Courtesy of Suzanne Samuels, mother of Charlotte Samuels, the youngest person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. “Come to me,” I urged, scuttling back and forth along the narrow edge of the deck, signaling over and over to my daughter where she should be. Charlotte [Samuels] had been in the water seventeen hours by then.
Data courtesy of Barbara Held and Marcia Cleveland. Among the individuals who have completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, the average age is 43.7 years old. The age of completion ranges from teenagers [female: Charlotte Samuels at the age of 16 and male: Lachlan Hinds at the age of 18] to veterans [female: Barbara Held at 59 and male: Bob
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Barra Award for Most Impressive Overall Year was given to swimmers nearly at the opposite ends of the marathon swimming community. While 16-year-old Charlotte Samuels was taking off time from school to become the youngest person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, 62-year old Mo Siegel
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "We are living in the world where 60% of the jobs of tomorrow do not exist today," describes Vipin Thekkekalathil, the Director of Parent Programming at Ashoka's Catapult. How are the young people of today preparing for a future that their parents never had to experience or even could imagine? "I think
WOWSA interview with Charlotte Samuels is courtesy of Mackenzie Miller, Open Water Swimming Correspondent from Newport Beach, California. Daughter of Steven and Suzanne Samuels, Charlotte Samuels defied all odds when she overcame strong winds and tidal flows on September 8th 2014 to become the youngest swimmer in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It seems records are being set and broken with greater and greater frequency in the sport of marathon swimming. On the high end of the scale, it was only a few years ago that Great Britain's Dr. Roger Allsopp set the record for the oldest swimmer to cross the English Channel at the age of 70. Then
Charlotte Samuels tells the story of the Cape Circumnavigation Challenge around Cape May in New Jersey: "...the waves we were swimming over were 5-6 foot waves and [my kayaker] almost flipped. When we stopped for a feed, Mike told us that the tide had turned and for the past couple minutes we had been swimming in place..." Dave Barra explains, "I think
