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There is a lot of good swimming to be had in the Bristol region, with several vibrant and active outdoor swimming scenes in the region -...

Stanley Ulijaszek at the Hampstead Men's Pond Listen to the podcast This podcast is about open water swimming in London – given how urban...

Listen here Sarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK, a sports...

Emma Gibbard and Carl Tysom are both passionate about open water swimming, and are both involved in overseeing swimming at the West...

Five years ago I undertook 65 swims in different places at the age of 65 years. I have written a book about it, entitled ‘Memories like...

Sam Millward is a scuba and freediving instructor, fascinated by the mental, physical and experiential benefits that all forms of...

A rising tide lifts all boats (and swimmers). Level water means equal rights. In the case of Ian Thwaites and the charity Level Water,...

Vera Prokopieva and Annie Liddle were undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. They both took up wild swimming together while...

Karen Throsby is a swimmer and a sociologist – Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. Her intellectual credentials are...

If you haven’t already swum outdoors in full moonlight, you must. It is one of life’s priceless un-buyable treasures. There are twelve...

The Wild Open Swim Blog is the organised work of Kath Fotheringham, Darrin Roles and Fiona Undrill. This now sits under the Swim Oxford...

If you want to find Dylan Friedmann on a cold, cold, Toronto winter’s morning, it’s quite easy in some ways. First get up before dawn,...