Colleen Blair, MBE To Be Inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
Colleen Blair, MBE will be inducted as an Honor Swimmer into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame on May 6th 2023 in New York City.
Tag: Pentland Firth
Frank Chalmers Stars In Crossing Hell’s Mouth
Full documentary of Frank Chalmers's swim across the Pentland Firth in northern Scotland, produced in 2009 by Meekrat Films
Frank Chambers Opened The Door
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in 2009, Meekrat Films produced a 55-minute documentary on Frank Chalmers's attempt at crossing the Pentland Firth, an 8-mile stretch of water between the northern Scottish mainland the the Orkney Islands. The Firth was successfully swum by Colleen Blair two years later. But the documentary - called
Colleen Blair’s Swim Across Pentland Firth, Nominee For The World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
Colleen Blair is a Scottish swimmer who has crossed the English Channel, North Channel, Loch Ness and circumnavigated Manhattan Island and the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands. But this year, she went where no man or woman has ever gone before - across the Pentland Firth. "The Pentland Firth was a tough swim in the well-earned graveyard for broken
