British actress Kirsten Callaghan portrays Mercedes Gleitze and John Locke portrays her coach Harold Best in the film Vindication Swim, to be released later in 2022.
Tom Blower, The Humble Hero Who Conquered The North Channel Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tom Blower was legendary before his untimely death at the age of 41. It was said that two people could hang from each of his outstretched arms. He could break six-inch nails with ease and sat on the bottom of Nottingham's River Trent for three
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The Greatest Englishman, a movie about Captain Matthew Webb
Mao Zedong's 1966 swim in the Yangtze River
Lewis Pugh's swim across the North Pole
WOWSA, Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, China.
Of all the swims in the world - races, solo swims, adventures - which has most
Back in the day before contemporary technological advances were utilized, Brian Meharg navigated swimmers across the North Channel with pen and paper, an era of trial and error as captains, navigators and swimmers were learning the idiosyncrasies of tidal flows and currents in the North Channel. Brian Meharg Shares His Perspectives On North Channel Crossings
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sean McCarry, Commander of the Community Rescue Service, escorted Wayne Soutter on an unprecedented swim across the Dál Riata Channel in 2012 that was initially pioneered by Mercedes Gleitze in 1928. The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association recently issued an official medal to Soutter, recognizing his
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. June 29th was a very successful day on the North Channel. "Two boats crossed two different parts of the North Channel and both were successful," recalls Pádraig Mallon of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Sabrina Wiedmer of Switzerland became the first female to successfully swim solo across
Courtesy of Heather Clatworthy and Doloranda Pember (daughter of Mercedes Gleitze), Portstewart, Northern Ireland. "Since I was a little girl growing up in Portstewart sitting on the strand beach, twiddling the sand between my toes, I have looked across the sea to Donegal and wanted to swim to the other side," writes Heather Clatworthy. "Now at the age
Courtesy of Clare Delargy, producer of Mercedes The Spirit Of A New Age. Mercedes The Spirit Of A New Age, a documentary film on Mercedes Gleitze, will be broadcast this Christmas in the United Kingdom on UTV/ITV and UTV Ireland. "It was shown earlier in Australia with Foxtel/Bio Channel and was also featured at the Galway Film Fleadh this summer just
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If we had to make a theoretical all-star relay of great female open water swimmers to swim across any of the Oceans Seven channels (English Channel, Catalina Channel, Molokai Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, North Channel, Cook Strait or Tsugaru Channel), it would be an extremely difficult choice. The
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A rōnin was a samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period (1185–1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless for various reasons including due to the death or fall of his master. In modern Japanese usage, rōnin - or a wandering samurai - also describes an individual who is between jobs or a high
