The Week in Marathon Swimming

October 29, 2015

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News & Blogs

Last call for IMSHOF / Catalina / Santa Barbara "Marathon Swimmers Weekend" in San Pedro, California, November 6-7. RSVP now!
Lake Geneva - an Epic Swim with Literary Credentials. Article by Crispin Thorold.
LoneSwimmer - How To: Understand the Features and Hazards of the Different Types of Open Water Swimming Locations – I – The Ocean
Suzie Dods' San Francisco "Champion of Champions" to take place this weekend in Aquatic Park.
8 Bridges 2016 announced - field expanded to 20 swimmers per stage.
Mark Sheridan - Catalina Channel solo swim report
Swim4Good - The conditional probability of shark attacks
Iron Mike - Lessons learned from Issyk Kul
Beth French announces plan to swim all seven of the Oceans Seven in 2016.
Diana Nyad, who recently falsely claimed to have been an Olympian, is "the greatest long-distance swimmer in the history of the sport", according to Michael Shermer, (ironically) publisher of Skeptic Magazine in Wall Street Journal.
Kim Chambers is the "world’s best open water swimmer," according to Ian McMahan in Outside Magazine.

First swim off the "Island of the Blue Dolphins"

The Deep Enders - six Ventura, California swimmers including dual Santa Barbara Channel record-holder Jim McConica, completed an unprecedented 70-mile swim from San Nicolas Island - the most remote California Channel Island - to the mainland.