Swimming

A group of swimmers plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck by symbolically completing the ship’s mission.

A conversation on a Michigan summer classic — lightning bugs. Also, the Detroit community gathers for a collard green cookoff. Plus, an ophthalmologist becomes the first Michigander to win an open water swimming challenge.

Today, we check in with WDET reporter Russ McNamara who's at the Democratic National Convention this week. Then, an ophthalmologist and his desire for long distance open water swimming.

Huron-Clinton Metroparks and community partners say it’s time to come together and do something to give every child the skills they need to be safe in the water.

In Michigan, we pride ourselves on our lakes – sandy bottomed and crystalline blue waters. But with such idyllic waters comes a risk: swimmer's itch.

Researchers look at how to control the parasite that causes swimmer’s itch, a husband-and-wife team of professional mushroom hunters offer their spring foraging tips, and the history of an undergarments factory run by women in the Upper Peninsula.

A federal court ruled that cutting the swim and dive program put the university in violation of a federal law requiring equal athletic opportunities for men and women.

Female athletes sued after MSU dropped swimming and diving sports programs.

It was announced on Tuesday that residents living near the Huron River should keep away from the water as a cancer-causing chemical was released into the river by manufacturer Tribar.

Today on Stateside, a highlight of Michigan Radio's deep dive into the many allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of University of Michigan's Dr.…