News

• Dec 1: December Newsletter - Deep Six take Santa Cruz; banquet recap
• Oct 22: October Newsletter - season recap & banquet info
• May 15: Semana Nautica 6-mile swim - entries available
• Apr 6: April Newsletter - October/November swim successes; banquet recap; new lifetime members.
• Nov 3: 2017 Swim Season in Review - Recapping 13 solo swims and 4 relays sanctioned by the SBCSA in our 2017 season. Discovering a key detail from the first Santa Barbara Channel swim in 1978.
• Earlier News

Steps to Swim with the SBCSA

1. Choose a swim route.
2. Make arrangements with an escort boat and identify your support crew.
3. Submit a sanction application:
   • Solo
   • Relay Team Leader
   • Relay Member
4. The SBCSA will assign an observer to your swim.
5. Train.
6. Swim across!

2019 Swim Successes

• Meg Omainsky - Anacapa Island circumnavigation. 7:35 on August 10.
• Scott Kaloust - Anacapa Island to Mainland. 8:18 on August 4.
• Denis Crean - Mainland to Anacapa Island. 6:20 on July 30.
• Cindy Werhane - Anacapa Island circumnavigation. 6:55 on July 26.
• Abigail Bergman - Mainland to Anacapa Island. 5:58 on July 23.
• Prabhat Koli - Mainland to Anacapa Island. 6:22 on July 10.
• Caroline Block - Mainland to Anacapa Island. 10:04 on March 31.
• Caroline Block - Mainland to Santa Cruz Island. 14:56 on January 12.

Deadline for discounted sanction fees: May 1st.
Apply now for 2019 swims.