Go ahead ask it. What don't you understand about this web site? The answers to your question(s) will be posted on this page so that everyone will have the answer.

What is Open Water Swimming?
Open Water Swimming, by definition, is a swim in any natural body of water including rivers, lakes, or an ocean. This web site focuses on long distance and marathon distance swims. Long distance swimming events are events where the distance is between 1 mile (1.5 km) and 10 miles (16 km).

What is Marathon Swimming?
Marathon Swimming, by definition, is a swim in any natural body of water including rivers, lakes, or an ocean of a minimum of 10 miles (16 km). It is permitted to grease the body before a swim, use goggles, wear a cap, ear plugs, and a bathing suit. However, no artificial aid of any kind is allowed nor is any physical contact by another person allowed.

What is Merch?
Merch is the abbreviation for Merchandise. Unfortunately, the word Merchandise would not fit on the tab. That is what we get for designing the site graphic width standards before adding the words. Note: If you hold your mouse over the tab long enough it will tell you the full name. Not that anyone has that much patience.

Why are all the E-mail addresses on your web site spelled out?
The simple answer is Spam Bots. Spam bots, also known as E-mail harvesters, E-mail address harvesters, crawlers or spiders, are quite probably the single most insidious manner by which spammers collect the E-mail addresses of innocent victims. In brief, most websites have at least one E-mail address viewable to the public, even if just as a contact address for information or inquiries. Many websites show many E-mail addresses - not just their own, but also those of visitors to their sites. Examples of these include message boards, guest books, archives of e-zine discussion lists, and so forth. It is not uncommon for websites to not publicly reveal an E-mail address, yet for it to still be simply found in the HTML source code of a web page. Spam bots are software used by spammers to automatically "crawl" the web, (and newsgroups, chat rooms, IRC, instant messager and other contact databases) and locate any and every E-mail address they can find. They then record all these harvested E-mail addresses into a database to be used for plying the evil trade of the spammer. How do you stop spam bots from finding your E-mail address. If you have a web site, do not put any E-mail addresses on it. You will find our policy on spam by clicking here.

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