Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doloranda Pember accepted the International Swimming Hall of Fame honors that we bestowed upon her mother Mercedes Gleitze on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. This is what she said on behalf of her mother: Thank you so much for the honours you have conferred upon my mother, Mercedes Gleitze. It really is a
Chris Guesdon To Speak Of Future In Scotland Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Guesdon is the man credited with creating the modern format of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. He has been so involved and committed to the sport of open water swimming that the number of countries he visited to promote or officiate in runs in the dozens
Courtesy of 4 News, Turks & Caicos. A 4 News report showcases Japan's Yuko Matsuzaki's 21 km Swim Marathon Turks & Caicos in Turks & Caicos. She was escorted by pilots Greg Doolittle of Surfside Ocean Academy and Collin Gray of Shoreline Adventures in a swim organized by Ben Stubenberg. This swim was a direct result of a meeting between Matsuzaki and
Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame. Sandra Bucha was honored last weekend by the International Swimming Hall of Fame as one of its relatively few Honor Open Water Swimmers. She will be similarly honored at the Mount Stuart Castle on the Isle of Bute in Scotland at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference and International Marathon
For people who love adventure, for individuals who enjoy the outdoors lifestyle, for those who yearn to travel and explore the world, Mark Beaumont certainly lives the life. The Top Scot has been around the world cycling, rowing, exploring. And now he has gotten into swimming. He does it with a wetsuit while swimming 4 hours 26 minutes in a 10.2 km swim
The epicenter of the emerging global open water swimming community - from short ice swims and wild swims to wetsuit-enabled mass participation swims and wetsuit-adverse channel swimming - sits off of the coast of the European continent, but is it called England or Great Britain or the United Kingdom? Does that include Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
