This week, Open Water Source is presenting a four-part series of the Greatest Open Water Swims In History. The Greatest Open Water Swims in History is a list of 101 historic open water swims, relays, professional marathon races, match swims or events in all seven continents on Planet Earth (as of 2011) that were unprecedented, demanding, unique and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be many inspirational speakers and great marathon swimmers at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City in June.Among the accomplished swimmers will be Anne Marie Ward of Ireland who will be honored as the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. A humble woman with a
Conrad Wennerberg is the Chairman Emeritus of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the widely respected author of Wind, Waves and Sunburn - A Brief History of Marathon Swimming, still considered to be one of the most authoritative books written on marathon swimming. Besides extensively documenting the history of marathon swimming, Conrad
