{"id":384260,"date":"2026-07-02T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384260\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:06:08","slug":"ultra-endurance-swimmer-catherine-breed-swimming-all-900-miles-of-californias-coastline-will-stop-in-humboldt-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384260\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Endurance Swimmer Catherine Breed, Swimming All 900 Miles of California’s Coastline, Will Stop in Humboldt | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Catherine Breed swimming. Photo from press kit.<\/p>\n

The ocean is so cold! Damn near freezing! And it\u2019s full of sharks and cliffs and cruel tides and waves, endless waves and wind, endless wind. Lots of rocks too. Really sharp, huge ones. Imagine swimming in that, hour after hour, day after day, month after month, right up to the point when night is longer than day and the leaves fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Right now, a few miles north of Crescent City, 33-year-old Catherine Breed is doing more than simply thinking about it. She\u2019s on her second day of a three-month swim from California\u2019s north end to its south, doing around 10 miles every day through open water near the shoreline until she hits the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a monumental task, one Breed isn\u2019t taking lightly. She has a crew with her in a sailboat, where she\u2019ll sleep. She swam the freestyle for UC Berkeley before she began swimming open-water ultradistance swimming. She\u2019s completed swims similar to this one before, last year circumnavigating the 60 miles <\/a>around Lake Tahoe and in 2020 breaking the previous speed record across Monterey Bay. In 2023, Breed became the first woman to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to Monterey Bay.<\/p>\n

Breed\u2019s swimming to bring attention to environmental conservation, with an oceanic focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t just about swimming,\u201d Breed wrote on the event\u2019s website<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s about listening, learning, and sharing the stories of the people and places that depend on a healthy ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breed will hit Humboldt in a week or so. Along the way, she\u2019s stopping to speak and attend some community events, one of which<\/a>\u00a0will be hosted by the Surfrider Foundation\u2019s Humboldt chapter. Breed\u2019s team expects to dock at Woodley Island on July 15 or 16. (They have to keep a flexible schedule to deal with the North Coast\u2019s ever-changing weather and ocean conditions.) Breed will update attendees on her progress, and Surfrider will exhort people to support AB 2734.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSurfrider is thrilled and honored to partner with Cat on her Humboldt County stop,\u201d said Surfrider Foundation\u2019s California Policy Associate Director Jennifer Savage. \u201cWhat she\u2019s already accomplished \u2013 and what she\u2019s attempting with Swim California \u2013 would be stunning just as physical achievements. The fact that she\u2019s also determined to be a force for ocean conservation and connection shows next-level commitment that everyone can find inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coastline belongs to all of us,\u201d Breed wrote. \u201cMy hope is that this swim helps people see it, appreciate it, and protect it. And connects all of us that love this place and recreate outdoors. We need something to rally behind right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catherine Breed swimming. Photo from press kit. The ocean is so cold!…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-384260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}