A swimmer off the coast of Los Angeles recently survived a shark attack, according to SFGate. A 50-year-old man was participating in a swimming competition eight miles off the coast of Catalina Island ...

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 ...

Marathon swimming looks like the ultimate endurance test, but the risks go far beyond cold and exhaustion. From toxic water ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Murray, a long-distance swimmer from the U.K., recalled how he fought off a shark while attempting to swim the ...

A 3-to-4-foot long shark nibbled on a 54-year-old man attempting to swim from Catalina Island to San Pedro early Tuesday.

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 ...