Déjà vu – Irish Sea Swim Gets Prepared
Déjà vu - Irish Sea Swim Gets Prepared Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Irish Sea. Attempted once. Attempted twice. Attempted a third time. The Irish Sea Swim was attempted 3 times before by an Irish relay [...]
Ger Kennedy On Verge Of Achieving The Ice Sevens
Ger Kennedy On Verge Of Achieving The Ice Sevens Courtesy of WOWSA, Portillo, Chile. Jaimie Monahan was the first person in history to complete the Ice Sevens, the ice swimming equivalent of the Oceans Seven. To achieve the Ice Sevens, [...]
Three For Three In Ice Down Under
Three For Three In Ice Down Under Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Australia. Ger Kennedy from Ireland completed an Oceanic Ice Mile in Threadbo Ski Resort in the Threadbo Reservoir in New South Wales, Australia. Meanwhile [...]
Swimming To Mikkelvik Brygge
Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Mikkelvik Brygge (located at 70° 3' 12.312'' N 19° 1' 55.2396'' E) on the Norway Ice Swimming Expedition in northern Norway. Ger Kennedy is leading Norway Ice Swimming Expedition in northern [...]
Antarctica 2020
Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Antarctica 2020. Ger Kennedy announced the expedition goals of the Antarctica 2020. "Antarctica 2020 is an environmental swim that will create awareness for two non-protected, potential Marine Protected Areas in the [...]
Ger Kennedy’s Antarctica 2020 Swim
Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Southern Ocean, Antarctica. UN Environment Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh is raising awareness about the need to protect Antarctica's seas through a series of swims under extreme conditions. He wishes [...]
Gerrrrrrr, Ice Sevens Do It In The ICE
Information courtesy of Ram Barkai of the International Ice Swimming Association. Video courtesy of Sergey Sobolev of the Yakutsk Divers Club. First there was the Seven Summits: Kilimanjaro (5,892m in Africa), Vinson Massif (4,892m in [...]
Ger Kennedy Goes Cold, Long And Rough
Ger Kennedy swimming in turbulence in Ireland's Myrtleville Beach, courtesy of Siobhan Russell. Ger Kennedy is tough as tough can be in any conditions in open water venues around the world. From his aquatic jaunts [...]
Grrrrr, Gritty Gutsy Ger
Courtesy of Ger Kennedy and Bolot Bochkarev, Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle, was the site of Irish ice swimmer Ger Kennedy's most hardy [...]
Petrified Forest 6 km Open Sea Swim
Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Petrified Forest 6 km Open Sea Swim, East Coast of Ireland Open Water. East Coast of Ireland Open Water Swimming was formed to share its passion of its open water swimmers [...]