McCormack, Robert L.

Robert L. McCormack was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11, 1937. At the age of seven, he moved with his family to the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up there and learned to swim at nearby Tenean Beach. He participated in several ocean swims between the ages of 26 and 41, at which time he retired from ocean swimming to work full time to support his wife and three daughters. At the age of 64, in 2002, Bob resumed ocean swimming, participating in some fifty ocean swims from that date to the present. Among his successful swims are: Boston Light (8-miles) - this swim r...