Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association reported that Carol Hayden became the oldest female to complete a channel swim off a California Channel Island when she swam from Anacapa Islandto Ventura on the California mainland in 9 hours 51 minutes. The 64-year-old dynamo broke the current
Photo shows flesh wounds of Steven Robles after a shark encounter along Manhattan Beach in Southern California. We asked, "If a shark is seen during a training swim by a pod of swimmers, what do ocean swimmers normally do? What should they do? What is the best advice? If a pod of swimmers are training together along the coast in close proximity to one
Photo courtesy of Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register, California. It is rare that open water swimmers get publicity in a front-page article of a major American newspaper, but Julian Rusinek (53), Ray Meltvedt (54), Scott Zornig (54), and Eric Peters (57) pulled it off in an article entitled 'Bad fish or bad PR? Shark attacks are rare, local experts say]
Veljko Rogošić’s Moje Najteže Milje – His Hardest Mile Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "He couldn't possibly do it." "No way, she must have jumped on the boat." "There is no documentation or proof of the swim." "No GPS record exists and no Observer's Report was posted online." These are the most common reasons why contemporary marathon
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Davis Cooley of Long Beach, California proposed a US$30,000 cash prize at a Lake Elsinore marathon swim back in September 1927. Unfortunately, no record of the proposed race in the lake known as Laguna Grande is known to exist. Information courtesy of Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming
Jean McKensie was a Carpinteria, California teenager who swam from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria in December 1926. The 19-year-old started together with Marjorie Buffington and Zane Steenrod along the West Coast of California, but she was the only person to finish according to the Press-Courier in Oxnard, California. Earlier that year, Steenrod made the
Scott Zornig found a fascinating Los Angeles Times newspaper article of October 15th 1957: “Jason Zirganos, 48-year old retired army major from Volos, Greece, swam the Catalina Channel from the island to the mainland in 17 hours yesterday. Greased from head to toe, Zirganos dipped into the stormy waters off Howland’s Landing at approximately 8:30 P.M.
"He's a fish outta water." That comment is made frequently about good swimmers by their less aquatically-oriented friends on terra firma. It certainly applies to Evan Morrison, co-founder of the Marathon Swimmers Forum. The Princeton University graduate has turned his life-long passion for swimming into a lifestyle...and bringing many more like him
Lynn Kubasek, a nominee for the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, had a great year in 2013. It was a great comeback from 2012 when she experienced an uncharacteristic DNF. Photo shows Kubasek swimming in-between paddler was Allison Bayne and swimmer Carol Hayden, with a fin on the upper left corner. Kubasek remembers, "About 20 minutes
Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association was ecstatic about the premiere of the film Driven over the weekend. He writes, "The film was a sell out and the theater had to turn away people at the door. The movie has everything...drama, action, laughter, disappointment and conquest. I thought it was one of the best documentaries I have
