Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio has passed along his swimming DNA to his son Andrea. On September 2nd, Andrea set a new record for a single crossing of the Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina), swimming from Sicily to mainland Italy in 30 minutes 6 seconds. "It is kind of an epochal moment in Italian open water swimming
Domenico Pellegrino, President of the C.N.S.V., announced the annual open water swimming race in the Strait of Messina, a classic since 1954. Limited to 100 swimmers, the participants face 6-knot tidal currents for the ride of their lives. The Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina in Italian, Strittu di Missina in Sicilian or the Messina Strait) is the
Nino Fazio of Italy found a photo of the first crossing of the Strait of Messina near Sicily, Italy taken on September 26th, 1930. The swimmer in the photo was the young pioneer Giuseppe "Pippo" Dominici from Messina. Nino received the photo from Alberto Dominici, Pippo's son. Pippo was 17 years old at the time, supported by his trainer Lillo Bensaja and
