Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Ventre wants to become the first person in history to complete a transoceanic swim from New York to London. If all goes to plan, he will step off the shore of New York in April 2017 en route to raise a target of £5 million for Oxfam. "Its 3,800 long miles [6,115 km] swimming alongside a support
Courtesy of Kickstarter. ORCA or the Ocean Recreation Comfort Apparatus is sonic camouflage designed to keep sharks away from humans when they are surfing, swimming, diving or otherwise recreating in the ocean. The new product is a Kickstarter project that is gradually being crowd funded. The ORCA emits sound waves that mimic killer whales. Based on
Reporters and the public talk about adventures with high degree of risks: hot-air ballooning across continents, crossing tundra without motorized vehicles, climbing mountains, ultra-marathon runs or mega-triathlons under extremely warm conditions. Open water swimmers talk about the most difficult swims in their sport: North Channel between Scotland and
