Video of The Deep Enders courtesy of Lynn Kubasek from San Nicolas to the California mainland. The Deep Enders Relay spanned from San Nicolas Island to San Pedro Monday October 12th into Tuesday October 13th was the first known successful swim from San Nicolas Island. Coached by Theo Schmeeckle, the sextet of Jim McConica, Tom Ball, John Chung, Zach
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Halestorm is a 6-person relay that swam an unorthodox 33.5-mile course from Long Point on Santa Catalina Island to Laguna Beach on the Southern California mainland in 19 hours 44 minutes. In order of appearance, the team members who crossed the Gulf of Santa Catalina included Brett Rose, Tom Hale, Roddy
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Most people take the shortest straight-line tangent when crossing a channel. Most, of course, get occasionally pushed laterally one way and the other, during their channel crossing, but channel swimmers definitely adhere to the mindset of going from Point A to Point B along the shortest, straightest line
Courtesy of Rich Gorman, Laguna Beach, California, home of the Oak Streeters. Patsee Ober commented on a swim this week off of Shaws buoy in Laguna Beach, "We saw 2 orcas. They surfaced twice from about 50 and 25 yards then disappeared into Shaws chasm of blue water never to be seen again by us. [It was] an amazing experience and a sight I will always
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "I was witness to four amazing swims by four amazing women," said Greg O'Connor of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association of a joint ice mile attempt in Boston. "Congratulations to Kellie Joyce, Rena Marie Demeo, Paula Yankauskas and Helen Lin [shown above]. After some paperwork, you will be
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are several iconic images that alway come to mind when we think of open water swimming. The first image is the mass open water swim when hundreds of swimmers race together along the seashore or in a lake. Another common image is of a channel swimmer greasing up before a marathon swim. Another is
Courtesy of Darren Miller, Huntington Beach, California. Jim Clifford became the oldest Catalina Channel swimmer in history this Sunday morning with a quick 9 hour 49 minute 20.2-mile crossing from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland. With Darren Miller, Lynn Kubasek, Barbara Held and Tom Hecker on his crew, he was bound to rip off a fast
Courtesy of Lynn Kubasek en route to the California mainland via Anacapa Island with Penny Palfrey over 6 hours 30 minutes.
Video and report courtesy of Lynn Kubasek around Anacapa Island, California. On September 3rd, Peter Hayden became the first person in history to swim around Anacapa Island, an island off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. His pioneering circumnavigation was completed in 5 hours 41 minutes. But his unprecedented round-the-island solo swim was not
Photo shows flesh wounds of Steven Robles after a shark encounter along Manhattan Beach in Southern California. We asked, "If a shark is seen during a training swim by a pod of swimmers, what do ocean swimmers normally do? What should they do? What is the best advice? If a pod of swimmers are training together along the coast in close proximity to one
