Swimming the Channel one way before for DEBRA, the charity for EB - which causes skin to tear, break and blister and has 5,000 sufferers in the UK - he raised £1.5million.

The Columbia River Cross Channel swim is open to everyone ages 10 and up. Swimmers ages 10-14 must be accompanied by an adult. The event is best for intermediate to advanced swimmers who have open ...

Jake has earned a place in the history books, in the Channel Swimming Associations records and his achievement has reached legend status in Westchester. But, Jake did more than just swim the Channel.

In 1996, Jed died at 53 years of age after a long battle with brain cancer. Jake was just 23 years old, and filled the hole left by the loss by participating in annual Swim Across America events ...

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 ...

Amy Wamsley tells people to live their dreams. She’s already swum from San Francisco to Alcatraz, and has eyed the English Channel since she was 12. A Yellow Springs woman is planning to swim ...

EMOTIONAL Rangers hero Graeme Souness has been explaining the reasons why he signed up to a second, LONGER, charity swim in the English Channel – just months after an emergency heart operatio… ...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — A Yellow Springs woman is getting ready to do something that fewer than 2,000 people have ever done successfully. Amy Wamsley is preparing to swim across the ...

Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, ...

That is what Maya Merhige, 17, went through for 11 hours and 39 minutes this month as she swam roughly 23 miles across the English Channel, from England to France. The swim earned her the Triple ...

Graeme Souness is raising funds for DEBRA, ... The relay team is reforming - this time to swim the Channel in both directions - followed by an 85-mile cycle ride from Dover to London.