Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cristian Vergara and his support team are ready for his unprecedented 38-mile (61 km) circumnavigation swim of Easter Island on Tuesday, November 29th. Crew member Capri Djatiasmoro reports, "The water temperature is 72°F (22°C) for the expected swim of 24 hours or less. The Internet WiFi communication is
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is easy to measure the distance from point to point in a channel swim or marathon swim. But how do you measure a circumnavigation swim* around an island? After the swimmer and crew selects a starting and finishing point, the correct and globally accepted distance is the total length of the shortest
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Where there are islands, there are always open water swimmers who dream. Big or small, tropical or uninhabited, there are hundreds of thousands of potential circumnavigation swims around the world. But perhaps none are as potentially dangerous and life-threatening as what the Night Train Swimmers will
