Swimming in the ocean is not just great exercise; it also provides a connection to nature proponents say is especially effective at reducing stress.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Open-water swimming is free, low impact and needs little to no equipment - Getty Whether it’s the sea, a river, lake, tidal pool, ...

Open water swimmers benefit from a significant boost to their mental health, more so than open-air pool swimmers, according to a new study. Research published in the Journal of Environmental ...

The psychological case for open-water swimming (Overbury et al. 2023)—and being in nature in general—is getting stronger and stronger. It will come as little surprise to anyone familiar with the body ...

She’s taking home the mermaid crown. A fearless Gotham native is set to stroke across the English Channel’s 21 miles of treacherous waters this week — becoming the first woman from the Big Apple to ...

Juneau’s Open Water Swim Series continues to be a hit among local swimmers looking for a few more strokes outside their normal pool routines. On Saturday, roughly 15 hearty souls entered the third ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Following a recent open-water swim in the once-polluted Chicago River, the question was raised whether Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River could host a similar event, and if anybody was ...

For the first time in nearly a century, swimmers took to the open water of the Chicago River on Sunday. Participants in the Chicago River Swim made their way along a one- or two-mile route downtown.