Courtesy of Brian Meharg, North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Vicky Miller's story on 12 hours 6 minute crossing the North Channel is here, presented by H2Open Magazine. In 1988, Alison Streeter became the [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 'Fast and Frozen' 2-way North Channel relay team completed its unprecedented journey across the North Channel from Ireland to Scotland to Ireland. The team of famed ice swimmers [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I want to do something that no one has ever done before and no one has ever swum both [the North Channel and English Channel] in [9 days],” said [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brian Meharg of Bangor Boats has almost seen it all on the North Channel. From helping Kevin Murphy in 1972 on a 2-way attempt and Ted Keenan in a [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Their warm hearts apparently pump out ice in their veins. Their warm smiles reportedly melt the frost they walk on the shorelines. Arguably, there are fewer more hardened and [...]
Video courtesy of Brian Meharg, Irish Channel escort pilot of Bangorboat. Anna-Carin Nordin was a 41-year-old marathon swimmer who became the first woman and second person in history to complete the 7 channels of the [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Talented and tough. Cool, courageous and composed. Well-traveled, well-mannered and well-spoken. Lots of words can describe Colleen Mallon of Ireland, a nominee for the 2014 World Open Water Swimming [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rohans More was willing to give it a go with at least 5 of the 7 channels in the Oceans Seven. He wanted to try the North Channel and [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What possibly could the two-finger sign of Pádraig Mallon mean out during the North Channel? Two-way crossing? Two hours/miles to go? Tandem swim? Second relay swimmer in? Peace? Victory? [...]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kimberly Rutherford, an American ice swimmer who successfully crossed Monterey Bay in Northern California on September 5th in 22 hours 6 minutes. This was the third non-wetsuit crossing in [...]