Category: Open Water
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Video shows ex-NFL player Rob Konrad after swim to survival
Officials closed an investigation into the boating accident that forced former Miami Dolphins player Robert Konrad to swim about 16 hours to shore. An incident report released by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission details the account Konrad gave law enforcement after he reached shore early on Jan. 8, including an estimate that his…
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FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup Patagones-Viedma
33 women and 48 men took the departure in Viedma (ARG) with amongst them some big names in the world of open water: Germany’s Angela Maurer (2013 10km World bronze medallist) and Thomas Lurz (2012 10km Olympic silver medallist), Brazilian Alan do Carmo (2014 overall winner of the Series), Greek Spyridon Gianniotis (2013 10km World…
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Diana Nyad turns her record swim into a 1-woman stage show in Florida
Diana Nyad, who made history as the first person to swim across the Florida Straits without a shark cage, isn’t scared of wading into another challenge — theater. The 65-year-old endurance swimmer is performing “Onward! The Diana Nyad Story,” a one-woman show in Key West, Florida, near the spot where in 2013 she achieved her…
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Investigators: Ex-Dolphins player did swim 9 miles after falling overboard
Former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad wasn’t exaggerating when he said he was stranded in the ocean for 16 hours after falling overboard last month. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed Konrad’s account of what happened after investigating the incident that occurred Jan. 7. According to the review, which was obtained by the…
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The 2015 Rottnest Swim Through the Eyes of the Community TAB Jet Skis
The Fremantle Sea Rescue Community TAB jet skis were out all day assisting people throughout the Rottnest Swim and here is what their GoPros filmed in the process!
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BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series – Swim the Swan 2015
A beautiful video, courtesy of Swimming Australia
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Mekong swimmer ‘drowns’ in trash
Six months after Frenchman Remi Camus ended his six-month, 4,400-kilometre swim down the Mekong River in Vietnam’s Tien Giang province last year, he has returned to seek partners for his initiative to collect rubbish dumped in the world’s 10th-longest river. While in Ho Chi Minh City, the 30-year-old former restaurant manager attended the VietWater exhibition,…
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USA Swimming anger at decision to host open-water race in UAE
More than four years after the death of open-water star Fran Crippen, swimming’s international governing body plans to hold a World Cup race in the UAE. But USA Swimming has opposed the March 13 event in Abu Dhabi, saying it was “disappointed†that Fina, swimming’s world governing body, decided to return to the country where…