This book is a testimony to what the tide has generated in my life. It is a way to “save,” in a matter of speaking, the ocean patterns as part of my life, currents and countercurrents, the storms, and, above all, the transformation and continuous flow.

Rising Tides is not only the recount of each of the Oceans Seven Challenge swims: the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Gibraltar Strait, the Ka-iwi Channel, The North Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Cook Strait, but also the recount of many other swims I have done in my life, emotional swims through grieveing moments, through sadness and many others that will relate to your own life.

The testimony of the tides in my life allow me to come back, relive and remember them. I find this important because the mind is like an ocean of infinite waves and perpetual motion, but even in its greatness, it doesn’t always remember its patterns and its own tides. When that moment comes in my life, Rising Tides will be here to help remember and allow me to relive each memory. In the meantime, I hope Rising Tides travels the world and reaches you, keeping you company through whatever you are doing in your life. I hope it inspires you to be less of yourself and more of the sky, stardust, light, and, in essence, more of that which makes you happy and allows you to reach for your dreams.