Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The recipients of the annual World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year are always the result of a wholly unlikely idea. From a Special Olympics athlete like the Cayman Island's Andrew Smilley for swimming in the cold water RCP Tiburon Mile and the 202-mile Ventura Deep Six that swam 202 miles along
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On February 28th, an intrepid pair of South African swimmers - Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot - set off to make history. By merely walking off the shore of Mozambique and swimming towards the island of Madagascar, they did. The attempt to cross the Mozambique Channel was historic. Their
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. They did it! They never knew where they would land in Madagascar, but they finally landed after 24 days out in the Mozambique Channel, the treacherous waterway between Mozambique and Madagascar. Beginning on February 28th with a small crew, South Africans Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot swam every
