Denis Crean, a businessman and longtime swimming coach, has pursued his passion for open-water swimming in just about every kind of waterway. He has overcome headwinds at Lake George in Upstate New ...

At the break of dawn, a group of swimmers step into a quiet lake, scanning the open horizon. There are no lane lines, no black lines on the bottom of the pool. Simply the water, wind, and the unknown.

A half-dozen swimmers gathered at West Landing Beach in Hampton Bays on a September Tuesday near two swans and a bald eagle, set against the backdrop of the gray sky. The swimmers, in their late 50s ...

Up and down the South Bay coastline, open ocean swims have drawn large crowds for years, including the iconic Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim, a 2-mile open-water race from the Hermosa Beach Pier to the ...

Hundreds of athletes ranging in age from 8 to 80-plus raced in the La Jolla Cove Swim on Sunday morning, taking part in the country’s second-oldest open-water swim. They swam past spectating sea lions ...