Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 100th anniversary of the Vibes & Scribes Lee Swim, reportedly registered over 500 participants who took to the waters in the centre of Cork, Ireland. With the water in the lower ranges towards 13ºC, the centennial swim offered the typical edginess of tough Irish swims. The world-famous 2 km swim
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Oswald Schmidt was honored as the 2013 Sandycove Island Volunteer of the Year. Ned Denison of the Sandycove Island Swim Club Committee explains, "Ossie put in a tremendous year in helping to leading three major events. He served as the Co-Chairman of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork,
There are numerous new open water swims being planned around the world. These new events join the thousands of open water swimming competitions that are over 10 years old. There are several dozens of events that are over 50 years old. But when open water swimming events reach their 100th anniversary, it is a very unusual commemorative happening. This
The 300+ swimmers at the Vibes & Scribes Lee Swim in Cork, Ireland learned during the safety briefing that their fellow Irish open water swimmer Stephen Redmond was in the water in Japan for his fourth attempt across the Tsugaru Channel. This iconic inner-city river swim is 1700m down the North Channel of the River Lee and 300m back up the South
