Merle The Mermaid Completes The First Mother Earth Swim Courtesy of Chris Morgan, Venetian Islands, Biscayne Bay, Florida. On Mother’s Day, we honor motherhood and pay homage to our own mothers. The history of Mother’s Day can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans who celebrated and held festivales for their own respective mother goddesses RHEA
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Waikiki Jim, aka Jim Anderson, announced the 34th edition of the the 7 km Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim (aka Double Roughwater) held in Waikiki Bay on Oahu in Hawaii. The event will be held on Sunday November 22nd. The Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the weekends, open water swimmers do the unprecedented and the unusual: they swim against currents, face sharks, swim up and down massive ocean swells. Yet on weekdays, they return to their cubicles, offices and desks like white-collar employees around the world. They are outwardly mild-mannered
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We watched the video below, produced by C.G. P. Grey, and were stunned. We asked ourselves: "In a future world where automation and bots remove the need for human labor, what is left for the human population to do?" If humans are not needed for transportation, food production or preparation,
Courtesy of WOWSA, swimming backstroke looking up towards the sky in Huntington Beach, California. When we swim in ocean and the swell are large and the shoreline is unseen in the distance, it is easy to feel how infinitesimally small humans are in the grand scheme of Mother Nature. In an office, in school or at home, we view the world on a human scale.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cameron Keith became the youngest person in history to successfully cross the Molokai Channel from Molokai Island to Oahu yesterday. After a delay due to mechanical problems on his escort boat, the 15-year-old from Cairns, Australia was admittedly nervous. But his nerves seem to melt away once he got
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When people say women who do open water swimming are tough as nails, they are not exaggerating. Yet these women often possess a humble softness about them, a genuine sweetness. They know their unique talents and innate toughness are no match for Mother Nature. Katie Rowe [shown above in one of her
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the greatly appreciated parameters of ocean swimming is when local municipalities clean and sweep the beaches early in the morning. The result is a welcome red carpet for early morning swimmers, triathletes, paddlers, kayakers, windsurfers and surfers. Walking towards the shore becomes thoroughly
Courtesy of END-WET, down the Red River from North Dakota to Minnesota. "I loved Grand Forks and the Red River swim itself," describes Honolulu resident Michael Miller about the 2014 END-WET swim that he completed in 9 hours 34 minutes. "What I didn't expect was how much one has to go through to even just go for a swim. Even during nice days, one cannot
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a kick-off from the harbor with an escort of a huge pod of dolphins and a great start on Day One, Mother Nature had something in store for the Night Train Swimmers who were attempting to become the first relay of swimmers across the 163 km Sea of Cortez. But as night fell and the Sueño 88 relay team
