Mary Margaret Revell's Romance With The Water Photos and video courtesy of Nino Fazio. Information courtesy of Guy Cohen, Sea of Galilee, Israel. Disney recently reached out to 80-year-old Mary Margaret Revell Goodwin because they are interested in making a movie based on her life. Revell's travels and experiences have been totally off script. Her
Videos courtesy of Nino Fazio, Strait of Messina. Nino Fazio not only runs his global guitar business and serves as the Open Water Manager for the Italian Swimming Federation in Sicily where he organized two FIN and FINA races for the Italian Open Water Championships, he also organizes hundreds of non-competitive swims and group crossings of the Strait of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dashing British billionaire Richard Branson and popular American actor Adrian Grenier will attempt to cross the 3.2 km Strait of Messina in a charity tandem swim. Branson, visionary behind the Virgin brand, and Grenier, an actor best known for Entourage and The Devil Wears Prada, will attempt the crossing
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio, the Italian stalwart in the Strait of Messina community, and Christof Wandratsch, the German stalwart in the ice swimming community, first met in the Strait of Messina in 1986. "It was my first time ever in the Strait when I met Christof. Then I met him a few years later in Cefalù and other
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio has passed along his passion and talent for swimming to his son Andrea. In September, the 15-year-old Andrea set a new record for a single crossing of the Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina) that was selected as the 2015 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. His crossing from
Courtesy of Luciano Cotena of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli and Nino Fazio of Baia di Grotta. Luciano Cotena, President of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli, reported that Giulio Travaglio, an Italian marathon swimming star of the 1960s and 1970s and the Honorary Chairman of the event since 2003, passed away yesterday. "Guilio was the first
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio has passed along his swimming DNA to his son Andrea. On September 2nd, Andrea set a new record for a single crossing of the Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina), swimming from Sicily to mainland Italy in 30 minutes 6 seconds. "It is kind of an epochal moment in Italian open water swimming
Courtesy of Nino Fazio of Baia di Grotta, Italy. Giulio Travaglio, a native of Naples, Italy, sprinted onto the professional marathon swimming circuit and never stopped until he was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1966. Travaglio won the 32 km (20-mile) Maratona del Golfo - Capri Napoli in Italy in 1965, 1966, 1967 (see
To answer that question, we first must understand what is a waterman, a term used frequently in the surfing world? Watermen - or its feminine equivalent, waterwomen - are individuals who are considered by their peers and the marine sports community to be well-adept, experienced and highly skilled in various marine sports and aquatic activities, performed
Successfully swimming across the Strait of Messina requires an experienced escort pilot. Choose the wrong time and life swimming in the narrow waterway between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in southern Italy can be extraordinarily difficult. The strait is characterized by strong tidal currents that requires expertise and
