In California, the beach is free. That isn't an accident. 🌊
Catherine Breed went to New Jersey last summer and found out you have to pay to get on the sand. The California Coastal Commission is the reason California is different.
Watch now: youtu.be/1NnrOzBRu-4
#SwimCalifornia #BeachAccess
Catherine Breed went to New Jersey last summer and found out you have to pay to get on the sand. The California Coastal Commission is the reason California is different.
Watch now: youtu.be/1NnrOzBRu-4
#SwimCalifornia #BeachAccess
October 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
In California, the beach is free. That isn't an accident. 🌊
Catherine Breed went to New Jersey last summer and found out you have to pay to get on the sand. The California Coastal Commission is the reason California is different.
Watch now: youtu.be/1NnrOzBRu-4
#SwimCalifornia #BeachAccess
Catherine Breed went to New Jersey last summer and found out you have to pay to get on the sand. The California Coastal Commission is the reason California is different.
Watch now: youtu.be/1NnrOzBRu-4
#SwimCalifornia #BeachAccess
She's swum 450 miles to get here. 🌊
San Francisco is home for Catherine Breed. She also stopped at the Marine Mammal Center, the world's largest marine mammal hospital.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
San Francisco is home for Catherine Breed. She also stopped at the Marine Mammal Center, the world's largest marine mammal hospital.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
October 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
She's swum 450 miles to get here. 🌊
San Francisco is home for Catherine Breed. She also stopped at the Marine Mammal Center, the world's largest marine mammal hospital.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
San Francisco is home for Catherine Breed. She also stopped at the Marine Mammal Center, the world's largest marine mammal hospital.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
“You cannot swim up and down the California coast without having a bird’s eye view of what 50 years of careful coastal management has done.”
#swimcalifornia #thankyoucoastalact #californiacoastalcommission
#swimcalifornia #thankyoucoastalact #californiacoastalcommission
October 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
“You cannot swim up and down the California coast without having a bird’s eye view of what 50 years of careful coastal management has done.”
#swimcalifornia #thankyoucoastalact #californiacoastalcommission
#swimcalifornia #thankyoucoastalact #californiacoastalcommission
They've lived on this sailboat for four months. 🌊
Catalyst is home for the Swim California crew while Catherine Breed swims 900 miles down the coast.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #Sailing
Catalyst is home for the Swim California crew while Catherine Breed swims 900 miles down the coast.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #Sailing
October 6, 2026 at 9:11 PM
They've lived on this sailboat for four months. 🌊
Catalyst is home for the Swim California crew while Catherine Breed swims 900 miles down the coast.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #Sailing
Catalyst is home for the Swim California crew while Catherine Breed swims 900 miles down the coast.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #Sailing
The worst beach in California isn't the worst beach in California anymore. 🏄♀️
Cowell Beach topped the state's dirtiest list for years. Save The Waves fixed it. One of the main culprits turned out to be pigeons. 🐦
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SaveTheWaves #SwimCalifornia
Cowell Beach topped the state's dirtiest list for years. Save The Waves fixed it. One of the main culprits turned out to be pigeons. 🐦
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SaveTheWaves #SwimCalifornia
October 1, 2026 at 10:20 PM
The worst beach in California isn't the worst beach in California anymore. 🏄♀️
Cowell Beach topped the state's dirtiest list for years. Save The Waves fixed it. One of the main culprits turned out to be pigeons. 🐦
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SaveTheWaves #SwimCalifornia
Cowell Beach topped the state's dirtiest list for years. Save The Waves fixed it. One of the main culprits turned out to be pigeons. 🐦
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SaveTheWaves #SwimCalifornia
Swim California is going LIVE in 10 minutes!
Catherine is over 700 miles into her swim of the ENTIRE California coastline.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/uQK8TSv...
#SwimCalifornia #Live
Catherine is over 700 miles into her swim of the ENTIRE California coastline.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/uQK8TSv...
#SwimCalifornia #Live
SWIM CALIFORNIA with Catherine Breed LIVE on Allez! Sports | Mile 700 - September 30th
YouTube video by Allez! Sports - Now Playing
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September 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Swim California is going LIVE in 10 minutes!
Catherine is over 700 miles into her swim of the ENTIRE California coastline.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/uQK8TSv...
#SwimCalifornia #Live
Catherine is over 700 miles into her swim of the ENTIRE California coastline.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/uQK8TSv...
#SwimCalifornia #Live
Turns out the 900-mile swimmer also surfs big waves. 🌊
Santa Cruz is where Catherine Breed started. The water at Cowell Beach used to be the dirtiest in California. Not anymore.
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SwimCalifornia #SantaCruz
Santa Cruz is where Catherine Breed started. The water at Cowell Beach used to be the dirtiest in California. Not anymore.
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SwimCalifornia #SantaCruz
September 29, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Turns out the 900-mile swimmer also surfs big waves. 🌊
Santa Cruz is where Catherine Breed started. The water at Cowell Beach used to be the dirtiest in California. Not anymore.
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SwimCalifornia #SantaCruz
Santa Cruz is where Catherine Breed started. The water at Cowell Beach used to be the dirtiest in California. Not anymore.
youtu.be/cNsclVdTLWA
#SwimCalifornia #SantaCruz
Every rescue at the world's largest marine mammal hospital starts with a phone call. 🐋
Katie D'Innocenzo from the Marine Mammal Center on how it works. Catherine Breed stopped there 450 miles into Swim California.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#MarineMammalCenter #OceanConservation #SwimCalifornia
Katie D'Innocenzo from the Marine Mammal Center on how it works. Catherine Breed stopped there 450 miles into Swim California.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#MarineMammalCenter #OceanConservation #SwimCalifornia
September 28, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Every rescue at the world's largest marine mammal hospital starts with a phone call. 🐋
Katie D'Innocenzo from the Marine Mammal Center on how it works. Catherine Breed stopped there 450 miles into Swim California.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#MarineMammalCenter #OceanConservation #SwimCalifornia
Katie D'Innocenzo from the Marine Mammal Center on how it works. Catherine Breed stopped there 450 miles into Swim California.
youtu.be/GWuYgOq7n4Q
#MarineMammalCenter #OceanConservation #SwimCalifornia
"I had goosebumps. And I'm not even swimming it." 🌊
Heather is on the crew for Swim California. 900 miles of open water, and only one person is in it. But nobody does it alone.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Heather is on the crew for Swim California. 900 miles of open water, and only one person is in it. But nobody does it alone.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
September 25, 2026 at 12:51 AM
"I had goosebumps. And I'm not even swimming it." 🌊
Heather is on the crew for Swim California. 900 miles of open water, and only one person is in it. But nobody does it alone.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Heather is on the crew for Swim California. 900 miles of open water, and only one person is in it. But nobody does it alone.
youtu.be/XPvAuGeS3eE
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
"That might be a non-starter." 🌊
Catherine Breed is rounding Point Conception into protected water. Next weekend, a tropical system called Polo could send swell from exactly the direction she's swimming.
youtu.be/9l7VwgSgis4
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Catherine Breed is rounding Point Conception into protected water. Next weekend, a tropical system called Polo could send swell from exactly the direction she's swimming.
youtu.be/9l7VwgSgis4
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
September 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM
"That might be a non-starter." 🌊
Catherine Breed is rounding Point Conception into protected water. Next weekend, a tropical system called Polo could send swell from exactly the direction she's swimming.
youtu.be/9l7VwgSgis4
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Catherine Breed is rounding Point Conception into protected water. Next weekend, a tropical system called Polo could send swell from exactly the direction she's swimming.
youtu.be/9l7VwgSgis4
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
On the surface, it looks dead. It's actually an aquarium. 🌊
Catherine Breed is swimming 900 miles down the California coast. Right now, Bodega Bay, inside the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
youtu.be/UB4F3DxbGEg
#SwimCalifornia #OceanConservation
Catherine Breed is swimming 900 miles down the California coast. Right now, Bodega Bay, inside the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
youtu.be/UB4F3DxbGEg
#SwimCalifornia #OceanConservation
September 22, 2026 at 6:57 PM
On the surface, it looks dead. It's actually an aquarium. 🌊
Catherine Breed is swimming 900 miles down the California coast. Right now, Bodega Bay, inside the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
youtu.be/UB4F3DxbGEg
#SwimCalifornia #OceanConservation
Catherine Breed is swimming 900 miles down the California coast. Right now, Bodega Bay, inside the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
youtu.be/UB4F3DxbGEg
#SwimCalifornia #OceanConservation
6,000 calories a day. 🌊
High protein, lower carbs. Meals cooked in the Bay Area, frozen, shipped out on dry ice. Salmon chili. Korean barbecue. Burrito bowls.
Full episode tomorrow.
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
High protein, lower carbs. Meals cooked in the Bay Area, frozen, shipped out on dry ice. Salmon chili. Korean barbecue. Burrito bowls.
Full episode tomorrow.
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
September 17, 2026 at 2:58 AM
6,000 calories a day. 🌊
High protein, lower carbs. Meals cooked in the Bay Area, frozen, shipped out on dry ice. Salmon chili. Korean barbecue. Burrito bowls.
Full episode tomorrow.
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
High protein, lower carbs. Meals cooked in the Bay Area, frozen, shipped out on dry ice. Salmon chili. Korean barbecue. Burrito bowls.
Full episode tomorrow.
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Everything changes at Point Conception. 🌊
Once Catherine gets around the point, the Channel Islands provide protection and sea state stops being the problem. Then it's local winds, and water that may get too warm.
youtu.be/bZzIDqQ8_2k
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Once Catherine gets around the point, the Channel Islands provide protection and sea state stops being the problem. Then it's local winds, and water that may get too warm.
youtu.be/bZzIDqQ8_2k
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
September 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Everything changes at Point Conception. 🌊
Once Catherine gets around the point, the Channel Islands provide protection and sea state stops being the problem. Then it's local winds, and water that may get too warm.
youtu.be/bZzIDqQ8_2k
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Once Catherine gets around the point, the Channel Islands provide protection and sea state stops being the problem. Then it's local winds, and water that may get too warm.
youtu.be/bZzIDqQ8_2k
#SwimCalifornia #OpenWaterSwimming
Only two anchorages along the ENTIRE Big Sur coastline. 🌊
After tonight the Swim California crew has nowhere to drop the hook. They'll heave to and float at sea until they reach San Simeon.
youtu.be/ULZ_45sHQa8
#SwimCalifornia #BigSur
After tonight the Swim California crew has nowhere to drop the hook. They'll heave to and float at sea until they reach San Simeon.
youtu.be/ULZ_45sHQa8
#SwimCalifornia #BigSur
September 2, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Only two anchorages along the ENTIRE Big Sur coastline. 🌊
After tonight the Swim California crew has nowhere to drop the hook. They'll heave to and float at sea until they reach San Simeon.
youtu.be/ULZ_45sHQa8
#SwimCalifornia #BigSur
After tonight the Swim California crew has nowhere to drop the hook. They'll heave to and float at sea until they reach San Simeon.
youtu.be/ULZ_45sHQa8
#SwimCalifornia #BigSur
$5.8 million. Two pulp mills. 🌊
Humboldt's North Jetty was so fouled in the eighties that surfers got sick from it. They sued in 1989 and won the biggest Clean Water Act penalty the West had seen.
Volunteers did that.
youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia #Surfrider
Humboldt's North Jetty was so fouled in the eighties that surfers got sick from it. They sued in 1989 and won the biggest Clean Water Act penalty the West had seen.
Volunteers did that.
youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia #Surfrider
August 26, 2026 at 9:22 PM
$5.8 million. Two pulp mills. 🌊
Humboldt's North Jetty was so fouled in the eighties that surfers got sick from it. They sued in 1989 and won the biggest Clean Water Act penalty the West had seen.
Volunteers did that.
youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia #Surfrider
Humboldt's North Jetty was so fouled in the eighties that surfers got sick from it. They sued in 1989 and won the biggest Clean Water Act penalty the West had seen.
Volunteers did that.
youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia #Surfrider
450 miles. Catherine Breed is halfway down the California coast 🌊
Fog and chop in Monterey Bay today, and Mark says the week ahead is optimal with calmer water heading south. The hard half of this 900 mile open water swim is done.
Week 9 Swim CA forecast: youtu.be/QJ98WEGiTrs
#SwimCalifornia
Fog and chop in Monterey Bay today, and Mark says the week ahead is optimal with calmer water heading south. The hard half of this 900 mile open water swim is done.
Week 9 Swim CA forecast: youtu.be/QJ98WEGiTrs
#SwimCalifornia
August 26, 2026 at 12:43 AM
450 miles. Catherine Breed is halfway down the California coast 🌊
Fog and chop in Monterey Bay today, and Mark says the week ahead is optimal with calmer water heading south. The hard half of this 900 mile open water swim is done.
Week 9 Swim CA forecast: youtu.be/QJ98WEGiTrs
#SwimCalifornia
Fog and chop in Monterey Bay today, and Mark says the week ahead is optimal with calmer water heading south. The hard half of this 900 mile open water swim is done.
Week 9 Swim CA forecast: youtu.be/QJ98WEGiTrs
#SwimCalifornia
Seven ultramarathon records. One stretch of coastline that feels like home.
In 2022, swimming from the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay, Cat Breed finally said it out loud: I want to swim the coast of California.
The full conversation is in our Offscript 🌊
youtu.be/tXyFvHYZygA
#SwimCalifornia
In 2022, swimming from the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay, Cat Breed finally said it out loud: I want to swim the coast of California.
The full conversation is in our Offscript 🌊
youtu.be/tXyFvHYZygA
#SwimCalifornia
August 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Seven ultramarathon records. One stretch of coastline that feels like home.
In 2022, swimming from the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay, Cat Breed finally said it out loud: I want to swim the coast of California.
The full conversation is in our Offscript 🌊
youtu.be/tXyFvHYZygA
#SwimCalifornia
In 2022, swimming from the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay, Cat Breed finally said it out loud: I want to swim the coast of California.
The full conversation is in our Offscript 🌊
youtu.be/tXyFvHYZygA
#SwimCalifornia
Somewhere off Moss Beach the ocean decided to be nice for once. Warmer than the air, northwest swell doing the work, Catherine closing in on halfway. 🌊 Week 8 update is live, straight from the boat.
youtu.be/CjgZneC6lzQ
#SwimCalifornia
youtu.be/CjgZneC6lzQ
#SwimCalifornia
August 19, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Somewhere off Moss Beach the ocean decided to be nice for once. Warmer than the air, northwest swell doing the work, Catherine closing in on halfway. 🌊 Week 8 update is live, straight from the boat.
youtu.be/CjgZneC6lzQ
#SwimCalifornia
youtu.be/CjgZneC6lzQ
#SwimCalifornia
96% of California's kelp forests, gone in under a decade. 🌊
The Mendocino chapter is live on Allez! Sports, and it is more hopeful than that number suggests.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUWo...
🎥 Natasha Benjamin & Jesse Rosen
#SwimCalifornia
The Mendocino chapter is live on Allez! Sports, and it is more hopeful than that number suggests.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUWo...
🎥 Natasha Benjamin & Jesse Rosen
#SwimCalifornia
August 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
96% of California's kelp forests, gone in under a decade. 🌊
The Mendocino chapter is live on Allez! Sports, and it is more hopeful than that number suggests.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUWo...
🎥 Natasha Benjamin & Jesse Rosen
#SwimCalifornia
The Mendocino chapter is live on Allez! Sports, and it is more hopeful than that number suggests.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUWo...
🎥 Natasha Benjamin & Jesse Rosen
#SwimCalifornia
200 miles down the California coast, from glass-clear water to swimming alongside a pod of 20 whales. 🐋
The more you experience the ocean, the more you want to protect it.
Mendocino episode now live on Allez! Sports 👇
youtu.be/tUWobMQkOAE
#SwimCalifornia
The more you experience the ocean, the more you want to protect it.
Mendocino episode now live on Allez! Sports 👇
youtu.be/tUWobMQkOAE
#SwimCalifornia
August 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
200 miles down the California coast, from glass-clear water to swimming alongside a pod of 20 whales. 🐋
The more you experience the ocean, the more you want to protect it.
Mendocino episode now live on Allez! Sports 👇
youtu.be/tUWobMQkOAE
#SwimCalifornia
The more you experience the ocean, the more you want to protect it.
Mendocino episode now live on Allez! Sports 👇
youtu.be/tUWobMQkOAE
#SwimCalifornia
Just your average day on the Swim California crew: weather report filmed from a boat right alongside a swimmer who already knocked out 6.5 miles in 2 hours (10 total today!). 🏊♀️
#SwimCalifornia
#SwimCalifornia
August 12, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Just your average day on the Swim California crew: weather report filmed from a boat right alongside a swimmer who already knocked out 6.5 miles in 2 hours (10 total today!). 🏊♀️
#SwimCalifornia
#SwimCalifornia
Week 6 of Swim California. Catherine Breed is on the Sonoma coast. NW wind to start, a calm midweek window to push south, then south winds that could go either way.
Full forecast from Stormsurf's Mark Sponsler on YouTube 🌊: youtu.be/J85vrWYnwD0
#SwimCalifornia
Full forecast from Stormsurf's Mark Sponsler on YouTube 🌊: youtu.be/J85vrWYnwD0
#SwimCalifornia
August 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Week 6 of Swim California. Catherine Breed is on the Sonoma coast. NW wind to start, a calm midweek window to push south, then south winds that could go either way.
Full forecast from Stormsurf's Mark Sponsler on YouTube 🌊: youtu.be/J85vrWYnwD0
#SwimCalifornia
Full forecast from Stormsurf's Mark Sponsler on YouTube 🌊: youtu.be/J85vrWYnwD0
#SwimCalifornia
Seven ultra marathon swim records in, Catherine Breed swam Golden Gate to Half Moon Bay, looked back at the coastline that raised her, and knew she didn't want to be anywhere else.
That feeling became Swim California: 900+ miles down the coast. 🌊
#SwimCalifornia
That feeling became Swim California: 900+ miles down the coast. 🌊
#SwimCalifornia
July 31, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Seven ultra marathon swim records in, Catherine Breed swam Golden Gate to Half Moon Bay, looked back at the coastline that raised her, and knew she didn't want to be anywhere else.
That feeling became Swim California: 900+ miles down the coast. 🌊
#SwimCalifornia
That feeling became Swim California: 900+ miles down the coast. 🌊
#SwimCalifornia
Ocean conservation on California's North Coast. People move to Humboldt County for the redwoods, the rivers, the ocean, then fight to protect them.
Stop One of Swim California with Surfrider Humboldt in Eureka. 🌲🌊
Watch here: youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia
Stop One of Swim California with Surfrider Humboldt in Eureka. 🌲🌊
Watch here: youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia
July 29, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Ocean conservation on California's North Coast. People move to Humboldt County for the redwoods, the rivers, the ocean, then fight to protect them.
Stop One of Swim California with Surfrider Humboldt in Eureka. 🌲🌊
Watch here: youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia
Stop One of Swim California with Surfrider Humboldt in Eureka. 🌲🌊
Watch here: youtu.be/iArI0I8FedQ
#SwimCalifornia