Phil White has started a lot of events and open water swimming activities in Vermont, with The Clubhous as his headquarters.
Ned Denison of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame announced the annual IMSHOF Induction Ceremony in Napoli, Italy on May 7th 2022. He also announced the half-day Pompeii Tour also scheduled for May 7th. "Pompeii was an ancient city located near Napoli, Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, were
Evan Morrison inducted as an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Administrator
Buckley Smith acquired the Marathon Swimmers Federation for over US$15 million in a surprise move that will revolutionize the open water swimming world.
The 2020 WOWSA Awards were announced and includes 13 nominees from 11 countries in the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year category.
Core Strength Is Key In Marathon Swimming Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation. Anthony McCarley was the first swimmer to document a marathon swim by the Marathon Swimmers Federation in 2014 with his unprecedented 11.3 km crossing of the Pillsbury Sound between St. John and St. Thomas in the Caribbean Sea. A motivational speaker and strategic thinker
Movie Night Before The La Jolla Cove Swim Courtesy of Element 8 Productions. Three California swimmers were featured in a documentary film, appropriately called Driven. Channel swimmers Fiona Goh, Cherie Edborg, and Evan Morrison are the featured swimmers in Driven, the brilliant documentary film by Ben Pitterle and Brian Hall of Element 8 Productions.
GPS tracker courtesy of Evan Morrison, Marathon Swimmers Federation. Melissa Yasmin Berkay writes frequently about open water swimming and elite open water swimmers, from Olympians to channel swimmers, for Swimming World Magazine. It will be interesting to see how she writes about her own 12 hour 37 minute butterfly crossing of the Catalina Channel
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After 16 hours 3 minutes as he was pushed far north of his goal, Doug McConnell has swum a total of 49.6 km, but he was still short of walking up onshore on Oahu to complete his planned Molokai Channel crossing. Don Sammons reported, "They pulled Doug out for safety reasons [as the] conditions were
GPS mapping courtesy of MSF Tracks. Open water swimmers have the benefit of all kinds of global positioning systems and tools: Suunto Ambit3 Sport GPS watch, FINIS Hydro Tracker GPS, Garmin Forerunner 310XT, IOLITE GPS-enabled swim goggles, and myriad other devices. But GPS has not been around too long in the open water swimming world. We want to figure
