Panama Canal Archives – World Open Water Swimming Association

Swimming Ocean To Ocean, Across The Panama Canal

Steven Munatones 01/24/2016 No Comment

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 60-year-old Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 24,000 miles across 107 countries starting in March 2016. The 450-day stage swim will cover the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, the Red Sea, the English Channel, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal while Strel swims between 5 and 12 hours every

The 36 Cent Stage Swim

Steven Munatones 07/09/2014 No Comment

The 36 Cent Stage Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Richard Halliburton was a well-known American adventurer and writer in the 1920s and 1930s who most famously swam the length of the 77 km Panama Canal over a 10-day period through Central America in 1928. He was escorted by a rower, cameraman, newspaper reporter and a crew member

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Swimming Ocean To Ocean, Across The Panama Canal

The 36 Cent Stage Swim