If it wasn't swimming 24 miles up the Chesapeake Bay from outside Annapolis, Md., to the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, well, then you aren't artist and ultra-distance swimmer Katie Pumphrey.

has now extended its coverage and produced new chart regions for Chesapeake Bay, just in time for the 2012 cruising and boating season. The coverage is divided into two regions, North and South.

Last month, Gov. Terry McAuliffe and other bay state governors signed a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, the fourth such compact since 1983. The new agreement lays out 10 ambitious goals ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Katie Pumphrey, who recently completed a goal to swim across the Chesapeake Bay. This ultra-distance swimmer became the first to take 24-mile route up Chesapeake ...