Channel swimming.com

Thinking of swimming the English Channel or Crossing the English Channel? Interested in long distance open water swimming --- Read on to see if we can help.

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This is the Personal site of Michael, Angela & Lance Oram & their friends

Welcome to Channel Swimming.com

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Site Owner: Michael & Angela Oram

Are you Interested in long distance open water swimming? Are you thinking of swimming the English Channel - need to know how you can do it - how much it costs - what is involved or where to stay?

Do you need help to organise a Channel row or other type of crossing? Are you in need of an escort boat

We will do our best to help.

Do you want to find out where to get information on the World's swims, are you looking for contacts with other swimmers or organisations? Need to know how to train - where to train - want other help or advice?

We have plans to pack "channelswimming.com" with training information - navigation & weather explanations - the season's tide tables - pilot & pilot boat information - plus a whole lot more. We have set up pages for "news", "question & answer", "contacts" and "visitors book" and a page of worldwide links to help you find the other sites that can help you. --

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Have you seen www.channelswimming.net the official Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation site? We also have a very active "chat" site if you are interested in making contact with other swimmers ask us for an invitation to join.

Pressing the link buttons on the left will take you to the other site pages.
The pages are not all active at the moment but they have been added to set up future links and to show the way we are thinking. Some pages (like the swimlists of the successful Channel solo & relay swims to date), will take a bit of time to load depending on the computer and modem you are running. If you are experiancing any problems with the site or have any suggestions for it please let us know.

Summary of the database statistics of all the combined recognised Successful English Channel swims

A full list of CS&PF successful swims to date is on the www.channelswimming.net web site - see the "Records" page

This pages information is still to be updated to the end of 2007 .

Channel Swim Statistics to June 2006 --

Total number of successful crossings 1171

916 crossings England to France ---- 255 crossings France to England

(including 33 2-way swims & 3 3-way swims)

completed by 544 male swimmers & 262 Female swimmers

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Need help to organise an English Channel swim, row, sail or any other type of crossing?
Are you in need of an English Channel escort boat escort boat to acompany you ?

We at "www.channelswimming.com" will do our best to help.

We have plans to pack this site with training information - navigation & weather explanations - the season's tide tables - pilot & pilot boat information - plus a whole lot more. We have set up pages for "news", "question & answer", "contacts" and "visitors book" and a page of worldwide links to help you find the other sites that can help you. --

If you have or know a site that you would like to link, e-mail us at the address below.

Our site is a personal one that is maintained by Michael & Angela Oram. We have both been intensively involved in the administration, organizing, assisting and piloting/escorting of English Channel swims, and other types of Channel crossings, for the past 25 years. I have personally piloted over 350 crossings in that time, our son, Lance, has piloted over 150 crossings.

My records show a 75% success rate.

Lances records show a 77% success rate.

At the moment I am the Hon. Sec. and Angela the Assistant Hon. Sec of the CS&PF (Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation). To help with the site information we have enrolled the assistance of our large circle of friends and associates to give their advice and pass on their experience. --

Want to get in touch with us -- e-mail mailto:michael.oram@btinternet.com

Have you seen http://www.channelswimming.net - official Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation site?

There is very active "chat" site at http://groups.google.com/group/Channel_Swimmers if you are interested in making contact with other swimmers. This site is a free one but is by invitation only. Just send us the e-mail address you want to use for chat correspondence and ask us for your invite.

Pressing the link buttons on the left will take you to the other site pages.
This site is expanding fast and we are still building it - the pages are not all active at the moment but they have been added to set up future links and to show the way we are thinking. Some pages (like the swimlists of the successful Channel solo & relay swims to date), will take a bit of time to load depending on the computer and modem you are running. If you are experiencing any problems with the site or have any suggestions for it please let us know.

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