A Paralympic gold medallist became the first blind woman to swim across the English Channel – and says that ... “I never thought it would be possible to achieve something like this.

“That’s when we knew it was possible.” From there ... there are plenty of things that can scuttle a swim across the English Channel. Things like bad weather, choppy water, commercial ...

Maya Merhige swam the English Channel in 11 hours and 39 minutes on Saturday, July 13 Chris Merhige and Kelly Gentry for Swim Across America Maya Merhige made quite a splash with her latest ...

Image: Gertrude Ederle enters the water with body greased and wearing goggles for the start of her record-breaking swim across the English Channel With the Paris Olympics later this month ...

who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. For the uninitiated, the film took nearly 10 years to complete with various talent attached, multiple studios involved and ...

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 across the English Channel, both for her 50th ...

It began with Rønning making the film as real as possible. “I wanted to be on ... in her swimming career and her attempts to swim the Channel — Rønning credits one person for the balancing ...

At this point, Merhige was already several hours into her 27-mile swim across ... the Moloka’i Channel in Hawaii, the Catalina Channel off the coast of Los Angeles, and the English Channel ...