Category: Open Water
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Can Paris Fix Its Poop Problem Before The Olympics? | VOX
Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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Woman Sets Record While Swimming To Raise Money To Help Veterans With PTSD | 10 Tampa Bay
Helping veterans who suffer from PTSD, a Sarasota woman took on a marathon challenge to raise awareness and money. Julie Madison was in the Gulf waters for more than 18 hours in her attempt to swim all the way around Siesta Key. It may not have ended the way she planned, but she still broke…
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Katie Pumphrey Shares What Motivated Her During Swim To Inner Harbor | WJZ
Katie Pumphrey shares what motivated her during swim to Inner Harbor
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Record 1600 Swimmers Take Part In The Annual Cross Penghu Bay Swim｜Taiwan News
The 22nd edition of the Cross Penghu Bay Swim was held Sunday morning on the outlying archipelago. A record 1,600 swimmers took part, and for the first time, the category of stand-up paddleboarding was introduced. Let’s take a look. At the sound of air horns, participants set out from the shore and enter the water…
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Meet The Group Of Students Preparing To Swim The Catalina Channel | Houston Life
These brave high school students are preparing for a big challenge to swim the Catalina Channel. It’s known for its cold, dark, and unpredictable waters just off the California coast. The group will complete the 20-mile journey together as one of the first Texas teen relay teams to conquer the channel.
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Swimmers Taking On The Mon River To Raise Money For Cancer Research | CBS Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh-area woman is taking an obsession and channeling it to fight the disease that claimed her mother’s life.
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Seine River Remains Highly Contaminated Ahead Of Paris Olympics | CBS News
A nasty controversy is brewing in Olympic waters with one month until the Paris opening ceremony. Les Carpenter, Olympics reporter for The Washington Post, joins CBS News to explain why the city’s iconic Seine River is still falling short of the requirements needed before athletes dive in.
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Katie Pumphrey Completes Swim From Chesapeake Bay To Inner Harbor | WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore
She made it! Ultra-marathon open-water swimmer Katie Pumphrey, a Maryland native, swam 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday as part of a “Bay-to-Baltimore” history-making event. The swim started at Sandy Point State Park around 3 a.m. and finished at the Harborplace amphitheater.
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Bay To Baltimore: Maryland Woman Attempting History-making Swim | WUSA9
Katie Pumphrey is swimming from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.