Hardened In The Open Water: Observing Stage Swimmers Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ross Edgley is currently en route in The Great British Swim, an estimated 100-day assisted 3,218 km circumnavigation stage swim around Great Britain, while Ben Lecomte is doing The Swim, an estimated 6-9 month assisted 8,721 km transpacific stage swim
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The recipients of the annual World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year are always the result of a wholly unlikely idea. From a Special Olympics athlete like the Cayman Island's Andrew Smilley for swimming in the cold water RCP Tiburon Mile and the 202-mile Ventura Deep Six that swam 202 miles along
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Night Jar Travel offers comprehensive guides to South Africa via a magazine and destination guide. It also sponsors a Night Jar Adventurers of the Year award in South Africa. Given the adventurous spirit, the hardened physicality, and tough mindset of the South Africans, eight groups of nominees represent
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Night Jar Travel offers comprehensive guides to South Africa via a magazine and destination guide. It also sponsors a Night Jar Adventurers of the Year award in South Africa. Given the adventurous spirit, the hardened physicality, and tough mindset of the South Africans, eight groups of nominees represent
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On February 28th, an intrepid pair of South African swimmers - Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot - set off to make history. By merely walking off the shore of Mozambique and swimming towards the island of Madagascar, they did. The attempt to cross the Mozambique Channel was historic. Their
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. They did it! They never knew where they would land in Madagascar, but they finally landed after 24 days out in the Mozambique Channel, the treacherous waterway between Mozambique and Madagascar. Beginning on February 28th with a small crew, South Africans Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot swam every
Thane Guy Williams (shown on left) and Jonno Proudfoot (shown below) will be careful to document their GPS coordinates on their stage swim between Nacala on the central east coast of Mozambique to a landing point 200 km southwest of Mahajanga in Madagascar in the Mozambique Channel. "We will start each swim from the same point we get out in the previous
During March and April 2014, there will be an unprecedented 500 km charity stage swim attempt by Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot from Mozambique to Madagascar on the Eastern African Front. Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot are daredevils who are setting out in a mind-boggling adventure like the explorers of old. Stroke by stroke, kilometer by
