Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Freda Streeter, MBE is one of the icons of the English Channel community, known for inspiring and [...]
Young Begets Young Across The English Channel Courtesy of Serpentine Swimming Club, English Channel. Gaurvi Singhvi is a 16-year-old swimmer who crossed the English Channel on August 23rd in 13 hours 28 minutes. Young for [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 32-year-old Adam Torrens will attempt to complete the Peak and Pond Challenge (Mount Everest + English Channel) within one year. "It’s a pretty massive challenge," sums up Nick Adams [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last week in the Catalina Channel, Sabrina Peron of Italy was visited by a hammerhead shark and a blue shark during her crossing. Guided with the cool heads and [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Luke Birch swam across the English Channel in 2010 under the tutelage of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Nick Adams in 14 hours 45 minutes at [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Luke Birch swam across the English Channel in 2010 under the tutelage of Nick Adams in 14 hours 45 minutes at the age of 17. Having completed such a [...]
Nick Adams was formally inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame due to his storied career as a channel swimmer and administrator. Characteristically cool and handsomely humble, Adam kept his acceptance speech as [...]
Nick Adams, who started channel swimming as a teenager, gave a presentation at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on how to develop the next generation for open water swimmers. "I started in 1992 [...]
When loads of smiles and an ambiance of excitement meet nippy water and cold air (at 8.3ºC or 46.9ºF) at the shores of Dover, it must mean the English Channel training sessions have begun in [...]
All kinds of swim teams and swimmers did their 100x100s (one hundred one hundreds or century swim) in December. Under the leadership of Michael Collins, the Nova Masters swimmers of Irvine, California puts a different [...]
The most hallowed waterway in the world has its own virtual community online. The Channel Swimmers' Chat Group is a healthy, active, inspirational corner of the Internet where thoughts, advice, updates and information are made [...]
It enables dreams to come true. Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation is one of the two governing bodies for those individuals or relays that want to cross the English Channel, the most hallowed waterway in [...]
Melissa Cunningham finds herself in good company for good reason. The Australian open water swimmer well-deservedly follows in the footsteps of fellow Australian female inductees in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame: luminaries such [...]
Marathon swimmers are not your average humans. They voluntarily push themselves beyond the normal. Cold, rough and tough are three adjectives that are commonly used among the marathon swimming crowd. But Lewis Pugh takes cold, [...]
Ever since he first made a splash in the English Channel world as an 16-year-old, the youngest to ever complete a 2-way crossing of the hallowed waterway, Nick Adams was destined for greatness. Now moving [...]
Dale Petranech, Honorary Secretary of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame announced the members of the Class of 2013. "The IMSHOF extends its hearty congratulations to these individuals on their selection. The Hall of [...]
Love seems to be in the salt water air more often in the open water swimming world lately. Marriages between Christian and Nadine Reichert of Germany, Damian Blaum of Argentina and Esther Nuñez of Spain, [...]
Ned Denison’s concept of the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims (or Triple Break) has a new member: Nick Adams. Adams completed a series of swims from former isolated prison islands where convicts have given [...]
The English Channel swimming community was delighted to hear of Nick Adams's eighth successful crossing of the Channel today. As the president of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation, he is well aware of the [...]
Landmarks are frequently something swimmers sight off of while in the open water. Piers, buildings, lights, towers, jetties, homes, trees and peninsulas provide the navigational points to help guide swimmers from point to point. What [...]
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