Swimming the English Channel requires months of preparation. Most participants sign up at least two years in advance. Swimmers have an entire crew providing navigation and food, since the swim can ...

Saskatoon native and long-distance swimmer Aerin Bowers recounts the moment she completed a 16-hour swim across the English Channel.

English Channel fast facts — 21 miles: shortest distance in a straight line across channel. — 57-64 degrees Fahrenheit: water temperature during swim season.

The world record for the fastest English Channel swim, set the very same day that Whitlock swam, is 6 hours, 45 minutes. The world's record for the longest crossing is just over 29 hours.

Panaji: Goa-based swimmer, Arunima Bose, successfully swam across the 34km English Channel as part of a relay team, ...

Finally, more than seven hours into what would wind up being a 14-hour-and-24-minute swim, the sky began to lighten. Around 5:45 a.m., the sun peeked over the horizon.

Within about 13 months, oncology nurse Jordan Iverson completed three demanding, over-20-mile open water swims in New York, California and Europe to earn her place in Alaska swim history.

And now, it’s Channel time. There’s a reason that swimming the English Channel is widely perceived as the ultimate long-distance swim: It’s tough. Several hundred people attempt to swim the Channel ...

The English Channel is a popular open water swim — dozens attempt it each year. There's a bar near the channel with the names of the hundreds of crossers over the years. Huffman wanted to be one ...

The English Channel was the first. The Catalina Channel is the third. During his swim across Lake Michigan, he will abide by the rules of the Marathon Swim Federation and Channel Swimming Association.

A long-distance swimmer has completed a "bucket-list" moment by swimming the English Channel. Lindsey Walke, 49, from Plymouth completed the swim on Saturday in 14 hours and 20 minutes.

HOLLAND, Michigan — A Holland man will attempt to swim across Lake Michigan this summer to raise money for the Holland Aquatic Center (HAC). Bryan Huffman, 50, swam across the English Channel in ...