Join An Open Water Swimming Event &
Raise Funds For ALS Research
A Long Swim designs and manages open water swimming events raising funds for
ALS collaborative world class research.
A Long Swim designs and manages open water swimming events raising funds for
ALS collaborative world class research.
A Long Swim has raised $500,000 for ALS research, dedicated to the groundbreaking and collaborative research
at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, one of the top
ALS research laboratories in the world.
Doug McConnell, with the help of his A Long Swim Team, became only the 48th person over age 50 to
swim the English Channel, in 14 hours that were divided between heavy waves and pitch black darkness.
Read more about Doug McConnell’s English Channel Swim.
In July 2016, A Long Swim dedicated themselves to swim Hawaii’s Ka’iwi Channel between the islands of Molokai and Oahu. Most of us refer to it as the Molokai Channel, but in native Hawaiian, it is called the Ka’iwi Channel (pronounced “kah-EE-vee”) and translates to the “Channel of Bones.” All in the name of ALS research.
The Ka’iwi Channel has only been successfully swum by 35 solo swimmers. That’s one of the reasons that it is
not as well-known (or as well-publicized) as, say, the English Channel, which has been successfully
completed by some 1,300 swimmers.
To keep it all in perspective, about 5,000 mountaineers have summited Mt. Everest.
Read more about Doug McConnell’s “Channel of Bones” swim.
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