Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice swimmer Jack Bright tells an old story in his new book, The Bering Papers: An Extreme Winter Swimmer’s Story. "For years, I have observed and received insights from the British extreme athlete," recalls Steven Munatones. "He has always impressed and inspired us with his drive to push himself and get
Ice swimmer Jack Bright set out on a goal and achieved it this past week in Siberia. The filmmaker of Winter Swimming and a member of the Bering Strait Swim completed his personal goal of swimming 1000m in Tyumen in what he calls an ice hole in water that neared 0ºC. "It is always a good feeling when you reach a goal. It was a great event at Tyumen [with]
Jack Bright explains the history and his perspective of the incredible Bering Strait Swim in his own words: After what seems like an eternity we finally landed at the native village of Wales, the most western point of the United States of America after we started swimming from Cape Dezhnev, the most eastern point of Russia. The swim took 6 days and the
Of all the open water swimming events to be held during the recent past and foreseeable future, we cannot imagine a swim with a higher level of risk and inherent danger than the 86 km Bering Strait Relay Swim scheduled for July 28th. 40 swimmers including the swimmers listed below from 14 countries will attempt to swim 53 miles from Cape Dezhnev, Russia to
Extreme swimmer and filmmaker Jack Bright had to break some bad news to his fellow teammates on their planned relay swim across the Bering Strait. Their Russian ship, the Akademik Schokalskiy, was ready to guide them from the Russian side of the Bering Strait to the American side, but the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow sent a very late-date
Extreme swimmer and filmmaker Jack Bright is ready to greet his fellow teammates on a relay swim across the Bering Strait. Bright will soon be joined by Jackie Cobell (UK), Matias Ola (Argentina), Ram Barkai (South Africa), Paolo Chiarino (Italy), Henri Kaarma (Estonia), Toomas Haagi (Estonia), and Alexandr Brylin, Elena Guseva and many other strong Russian
Jack Bright completed a swim in a frozen Lake Bled in Slovenia. "They are trying to develop winter swimming there after holding the world championships in 2010. I swam 550 meters in a 13m pool cut from the ice," said Jack. "Dizziness was the biggest problem at the end, not cold. It is certainly a great location, beautiful scenery and beautiful
Open Water Source was privy to one of the most fascinating and beautiful open water swimming brochures ever created. Sergey Novikov, Founder and President of the Russian American Community Association and President of Meeting of the Sun North America, will soon launch a website and distribute a brochure with powerful imagery and inspirational information of
"We are looking for one more swimmer to participate with us - swimming for short 20-minute swims 4-5 times over a 24-30 hour period in sub-5 waters near the Arctic Circle," explained British extreme swimmer Jack Bright. "We are trying to have as many nations represented as possible and adding an American would be very nice in our relay swim across the
Jack Bright's documentary, Winter Swimming, is fascinating look at the niche world of extreme swimming where freezing is a given reality. Jack's narration is the ideal overlay on the visual world of snow and ice that he presents from the Czech Republic. The explanations and descriptions of the winter swimmers are helpful and educational, but not
