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 ...

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 ...