Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild are organizing the first Ka'iwi Channel Swim this August and entries are pouring in. 28 miles across the Ka’iwi Channel from Kaluako'i on the west shore of Molokai to Sandy Beach on the east shore of Oahu. In a few words, it will be the gnarliest, riskiest, most difficult relay competition ever attempted. No doubt
Like all the other Oceans Seven swims, channel swimmers around the world are gearing up for the Tsugaru Channel. In addition to the good number of Japanese relays with masters swimmers, channel swimmers from South Africa (Roger Finch), Spain (Miquel Suñer Comalat), Guatemala (Yesenia Cabrera Fuego), USA (Brad McVetta) and England (Adam Walker) are making
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Tsugaru Channel is the Japanese leg of the Oceans Seven. This year, Stephen Redmond, Darren Miller, Craig Lenning, Michelle Macy, Forrest Nelson and Japanese masters swimming relays have conquered this channel. Representatives of the Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association and at least two Tsugaru Channel swimmers will be at the 2012 Global Open Water
Forrest Nelson has had two very experiences in the Tsugaru Channel. Earlier this year in May, the multi-channel American swimmer (English, Catalina, Molokai Channel, Cook, Anacapa, Palilolo, San Clemente) faced brutally harsh conditions (winds and currents in 12°C water). Swimming together with Michelle Macy in the lumpy bumpy sea, neither of them
The race to become the first to achieve the Oceans Seven is heating up...from different perspectives: Man vs. Woman. A former world-class swimmer vs. a former rugby player. Speed vs. Acclimatization. Ireland vs. Australia vs. USA. While Ireland's Stephen Redmond remains in the driver's seat in the Oceans Seven, Australia's Penny Palfrey and Americans
With Adam Walker's nearly 17-hour conquest of the Molokai Channel along an unprecedented route that torturously took him along the southern coast of Oahu yesterday, the British swimmer joins the growing group of marathon swimmers who are closest to the exclusive goal of the Oceans Seven. With a brutal encounter with Portuguese man o war now to his credit,
The intrepid Michelle Macy who recently tried the earliest attempts at the Tsugaru Channel and North Channel to complete the Oceans Seven was caught short on both attempts by impossibly turbulent waters and summer water temperatures that hovered just about 50°F (10°C). In her latest attempt today, Macy lasted 4 hours 41 minutes and had nearly reached the
The Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming has already welcomed its first new member of 2012 with Jaime Caballero's Catalina Channel swim this April. Who else will join this esteemed group of open water swimmers? Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming club members are limited to those who complete crossings of the English Channel and Catalina Channel and a
Michelle Macy, a renowned cold-water swimmer with records sprinkled across the Pacific Ocean who once failed to cross the Molokai Channel, went back to her warm-water haunt and successfully crossed from Molokai to Oahu, landing this morning on Sandy Beach on the eastern shores of Oahu.Traffic seems to be building up on the Molokai Channel with Darren Miller
