A long-distance swimmer is recovering after a rare shark bite early Tuesday morning during an open water swim from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California mainland. The victim, identified ...

A common question asked of students on the first day back to school: What’d you do this summer? Three local teenagers can boast they were part of the youngest relay team to cross the 21-mile Catalina ...

SAN PEDRO (CBSLA.com) — A group of teenagers are attempting to become the youngest swimmers to relay from Catalina Island to Rancho Palos Verdes. The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation's relay was ...

An A-level student from Hove once afraid of the ocean is now taking on sea swims.

HOLLAND — Now that he's mastered the triple crown of open water marathon swimming, it might be safe to assume local ophthalmologist Bryan Huffman is half-man, half-fish. Huffman, who previously swam ...

Sam Shoemaker traveled more than 26 miles across the Catalina Channel, braving strong winds and choppy water. He paddled alongside a whale for miles and at one point hallucinated due to sea sickness.

A shark bit a swimmer on a leg and a foot as he swam from Catalina Island to the mainland in the early hours of Tuesday, Sept. 30. About 12 miles out from Catalina, the man was bit by a three- to four ...

Last week, a local woman set a world record for her swim across the Catalina Channel. It was Grace Van der Byl's ninth world record. But she didn't do it alone, she had help including from family ...

Don Baker is a bit like Michael Phelps. Tell Baker that something hasn’t been done, and he’s going to do it. That’s what led to him gathering six other Masters swimmers for the opportunity to become ...

Olympic gold medalist Aaron Peirsol is planning a crossing of the Catalina Channel to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. For some time, my oldest and dearest friends have been exploring ...