Courtesy of Jason Malick. If you asked a swim support paddler or marathon swimmer what made for an ideal support craft, what would be some properties or responses one might receive? *High Visibility *Ease of Identifying or connecting paddler with swimmer at the start of a race *Trackability and maintaining the straightest point-to-point course line
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice swimming, marathon swimming, ocean swimming, channel swimming, pioneer swimming, kayaking, organizing, observing and volunteering. Lisa Hertz and Jason Malick do it all. The pair, once engaged both literally and figuratively, are all about the open water. So when it came to their marriage, the pair
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The June issue of the Open Water Swimming Magazine has lots of articles on how families come together in the sport of open water swimming. Husbands and wives, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters all coming together in various open water swimming venues around the world. Article
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "She has a lot of marathoning left to do," predicts Tampa Bay Marathon Swim race director Ron Collins about Lisa Hertz. The 28-year-old took a little spring break from class and turned in an impressive 12 hour 46 minute swim at one of the longest competitive marathon swims in the world this past weekend.
C3 or the Cape Circumnavigation Challenge is a new 15.1-mile (24.3 km) race around Cape May, New Jersey. Established by Jason Malick, the swim will be held on September 14th. It stirs up memories of the dormant Around the Island Swim in Atlantic City. "The C3 will soon become a new Jersey Shore Tradition and perhaps the next hardest race in the world
Jason Malick swam around Absecon Island as a throwback to the Around the Island Swim that was pioneered in 1953 by a friendly bet between two lifeguards. Captain Stewart Rosen of the Metamorphisis and kayaker Jeff Wildonger left Gardner's Basin as Malick rode the ebb tide out into the Atlantic Ocean passing by the grand strand of Atlantic City. The
Ice swimmer Jason Malick announced the inaugural Cape Circumnavigation Challenge, a 15.1-mile marathon swim around Cape May to be held on September 14th 2013. “Cape May is dubbed America's Oldest Seashore Resort with a history dating back to the early 1600's. The town is located at the very southern tip of New Jersey where the Delaware Bay and Atlantic
Jason Malick jumped off his escort boat right under the Golden Gate Bridge in the 49°F (9.4°C) water this morning and is now heading steadily to the Farallon Islands with the tides behind him. Malick can be followed on his 30-mile attempt to become the first person to swim from the mainland of California, starting at the Golden Gate Bridge to the "most
Lelané Rossouw-Bancroft and Jason Malick are among the newest members of the International Ice Swimming Association for doing a one-mile swim in less than 5°C (41°F). For that frozen feat, they have the honor of wearing the official red jacket of the International Ice Swimming Association. Malick, who also works for Endless Pools, suggested various ways
Three elite amateur marathon swimmers from America traveled around the world to participate in the Bell Buoy Challenge Swim this week. Jason Malick from Delaware, Denise Everitt of New York and Jen Schumacker of Los Angeles (shown on left) will compete against their South African counterparts on Hobie Beach. Jason has done a handful of marathons in
