As a journalist, I’m a creature of deadline. I signed up to participate in the challenge to swim 15 miles in June for the American Red Cross, and of course I waited until the very last day to finish.

Canandaigua, N.Y. (WHAM)— 40 years ago, a group of men and women first swam the length of Canandaigua Lake together. Now, the same group, made up of a coach and some swimmers, will take on the lake ...

"Exhausting and emotional" is how one man has described taking part in a 16-hour swim relay across the English Channel. Mark Baber, from Rothwell in Leeds, undertook the challenge along with three ...