The Marathon Swimmers Federation (www.marathonswimmers.org) wrote about the Spirit of Marathon Swimming, specifically covering and defining unassisted marathon swimming. To quote the MSF, "Marathon swimmers embrace the challenge of crossing wild, open bodies of water with minimal assistance beyond their own physical strength and mental fortitude. There
The Epic Swim 2020 relay consisted of Nick Hobson, Jon Ornée, Dave Ornée, Jeremy Sall, Matt Smith, and Todd Suttor who completed a 91.3 km mid-lake crossing of Lake Michigan from Wisconsin to Michigan, in August 2020 after 20 hours 50 minutes here (The Year of Living Ep!cally).
According to The Billboard Magazine issue of April 25th 1942, Navy swim coach and professor Henry Ortland Jr. addressed the leading swim coaches of the era at the 1942 College Swimming Coaches Association meeting at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts that "the Japanese endurance swimmers were responsible for the reconstruction of the Singapore
A swim streamer is used in various channel swims around the world.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The use of swim streamers in channel swims and marathon swims has been debated by a few. But, at the heart of the debate, we wonder, "What is really the practical difference between a channel swimmer who uses a swim streamer and a channel swimmer who swims between two kayakers or between a kayaker and a
In a preliminary investigation of what is allowed and what is not allowed in solo swims across the Straits of Florida, we found the information below. While dozens have tried since 1950, there have only been three swimmers who made it from shore to shore (Walter Poenisch, Susie Maroney, and Diana Nyad) and three swimmers who have attempted in the 21st
Courtesy of WOWSA, from the Tsugaru Channel in Japan to the Straits of Florida in the Caribbean Sea. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming has described and covered swims that use a swim streamer including swims by Stephen Redmond, Darren Miller, Adam Walker, Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, and Rick Gaenzle across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan to Diana Nyad in
Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, Rick Gaenzle Cross Tsugaru Courtesy of WOWSA, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Ocean Navi's Masayuki Moriya filmed the American three-man relay team of Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, and Rick Gaenzle successfully cross the Tsugaru Channel. The trio swam gracefully over their swim streamers (sarashi in Japanese) alongside Captain Mizushima's
Photo courtesy of Christi Barli in the Florida Straits with Diana Nyad. In the Marathon Swimmers Forum, there was criticism of Diana Nyad for use of a swim streamer during her attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. The criticism ranged from a discussion that it aided her in propulsion to swim streamers are not allowed by other channel swimming
