In reference to a previous article about the beluga athletes in open water swimming events, the always active merman Scott Zornig (shown on left), president of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association, reported about an event he used to organize in Southern California where he had 3 different divisions: Sea Walrus for men at least 220 lbs.
The Oak Streeters are at it again. In the same holiday season where hundreds of pods of swimmers complete their annual 100 x 100s in pools across the world, the Oak Streeters, a pod of open water swimmers in Laguna Beach, California, will do another set of 100 x 100s open water style this Saturday. Instead of doing one hundred one hundreds in a
In the same holiday season where hundreds of pods of swimmers are doing their annual 100 x 100s in pools across the world, the Oak Streeters, a pod of open water swimmers in Laguna Beach, California, is set to do their 100 x 100s open water style this year. Instead of doing one hundred one hundreds in a flat-water, warm-water, chlorinated setting while
Scott Zornig does a lot for others. He is a passionate ocean swimmer who founded Master of The Seas and is currently the president of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association. In a charity swim attempt on behalf of the City of Hope for pediatric cancer research a decade ago, he attempted to swim along the entire 40-mile (63.7 km) coastline of Orange
The Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association held its annual banquet on the same day of the Channel Swimming Association and the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation. As one of the youngest channel organizations on the planet, the Association has been growing significantly in recent years. "We had years with one swim...but we just had 19 successful
Back in 1978, Cindy Cleveland became the first person to cross the Anacapa Channel, 12.4 miles (10.8 nm) from Anacapa Island to Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard on the California mainland. 36 successful swimmers later, not one relay had given this cold-water, rough, marine-strewn channel a shot. All solos, no group swims. Until October 14th that is. When
Teenage pool swimmer Fiona Goh jumped into the Pacific Ocean for the first time on a wintery cold morning on January 1st. The jolt of cold water didn't surprise her; it merely served to rev her up for more. Since that January morning, she heads down to the California coast every weekend. Like many of her marathon swimming heroes and heroines, she relishes
