A shark bite has been reported by a long distance swimmer at Southern California's Catalina Island. According to KTLA via Yahoo News, a swimmer in his 50s was doing a long-distance channel swim from ...

The first mention of an attempted swim from Robben Island to the mainland is found in a short article in the Cape Times of 1876, neatly filed in the South African Nationa ...

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this ...

VINEYARD HAVEN — A British-South African endurance athlete crossed the finish line of his 62-mile multi-day swim around Martha’s Vineyard on Monday, becoming the first person to swim all the way ...

In the dark of night on July 21, long-distance swimmer Catherine Breed emerged from Lake Tahoe at Skylandia Park, near Tahoe City, and cracked open a Pabst Blue Ribbon with her boyfriend.She’d just ...

A British-South African endurance athlete became the first person to swim around the island of Martha’s Vineyard on Monday, completing a 60-mile (97-kilometer) trek over multiple days to raise ...

An endurance athlete is hoping to change minds about sharks by swimming around Martha's Vineyard, just in time for the 50th anniversary of "Jaws." British-South African swimmer Lewis Pugh was the ...

Katie Pumphrey, a Baltimore open-water ultra-marathon swimmer, is preparing for another long-distance challenge, her third English Channel crossing. Pumphrey completed a six-hour swim on Thursday in ...

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Maarten van der Weijden beat leukemia and went on to win an Olympic gold swimming medal in Beijing, but even his powers of endurance weren't enough to complete his latest ...

A man was bitten by a shark during a popular long-distance channel swim from Catalina Island to the mainland early Tuesday morning. The 50 to 55-year-old swimmer was about 12 miles off Catalina Island ...

A man who was partaking in a long-distance swim off the coast of California was bitten by a shark Tuesday morning. According to authorities, the unidentified swimmer, aged between 50 to 55, was ...