Dr. Steven Minaglia and Marek Lehocky completed a 206.43 km (128.27-mile) non-continuous stage swim, a clockwise circumnavigation swim around the island of Oahu on November 6th.
Steven Minaglia and Marek Lehocky near culmination of an unprecedented circumnavigation stage swim around the island of Oahu
So Looong For 2020 - Sun Sets On The Double Roughwater Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the open water swimming and channel swimming calendars in Europe and elsewhere around the world are gaining steam after the lockdowns of 2020, the United States is still largely without any established events that have continued for decades. There
Say Aloha To This Year's Waikiki Roughwater Swim Courtesy of Stefan Reinke, Waikiki Roughwater Swim Committee, Oahu. Similar to tens of thousands of open water swims around the world in hundreds of countries in lakes, bays, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, the 2020 Waikiki Roughwater Swim was cancelled this year. The Waikiki Roughwater Inc Swim Committee
COVID-19's Impact On Channel Swimming In Hawaii Courtesy of Jeff Kozlovich, Oahu-Molokai, Hawaii. With the global coronavirus pandemic surging, the number of confirmed cases in United States is now greater than any other country in the world (86,012). See data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center here. But hope reigns. Jeff Kozlovich, the
World's Most Unique Hobby - Discarded Fishing Weight Collection Courtesy of WOWSA, Oahu, Hawaii. Triple Crowner Michael Miller of Honolulu trains on the south and north shores of Oahu. Along the way in the clear offshore water of Oahu, he dives under the surface and picks up fishing weights along the way. He can't help himself and has picked up quite a
Little Is Huge Courtesy of Clark Little Photography, Oahu, Hawaii. While open water swimmers stand onshore to stretch, plan out, and recover from their swim, Clark Little spends a vast majority of his time in the ocean right on the shoreline. For ocean swimmers, Little's beautifully creative work speaks volumes. Flip through his 2020 Calendar or view his
Matt & Manoa Buckman, Heroes In The Ocean Video courtesy of Aaron Begle; information courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Escort pilot Matt Buckman and his co-pilot, son and escort kayaker Manoa Buckman know the waters and channels around the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Molokai, Lanai and Maui. They know the waters very, very
Ferguson Freestyling Across The Molokai Channel Photos courtesy of © Sarah Ferguson's 18 km swim from Umlanga to Durban in South Africa. Report courtesy of Linda Kaiser, Ka'iwi Channel, Hawaii. South African Sarah Ferguson from Durbin became the first African to successfully swim the Ka'iwi Channel from Molokai to Oahu. Linda Kaiser reports, "She
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There was a spike in the number of shark encounters and shark attacks around the island of Maui in the State of Hawaii during 2012 and 2013. In an effort to understand tiger shark movements around the islands, researchers from the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology tagged 41 tiger sharks with satellite
