Could I have been destined to one day swim from Alcatraz? Could I simply have been wasting time and imagination yesterday, making...

Along for the ride, past Coit Tower, behind kayaker Mark with the orange flag. All photos by Liam Turner Despite my every sabotage...

Right where a man had drowned 14 hours earlier, David and I guessed at the time. "8?" I said. "You think it's t...

Where to now ? In 2012 I was to have swum from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge — or vice versa, tide depending — and completed ...

One year ago, I first fell headlong into the murky, unremitting, unforgiving, frigid embrace of the open water, and never got out. Exc...

What a photographer my son Liam is: catching me between jiggles so that the flapping skin resembled musculature. Challenging endeavors ...

Though I don't look anything close to the überswimmer on the right, I don't look like the dude on the left anymore , either. Swimm...

Delightedly goofy? Seven years ago, I would not have emerged from any body of water looking so goofily delighted (or vice versa). Whene...