Category: Open Water

Swimming in a river after rain is something I’d always warn against, because run-off from fields and water from over-flowing drains end up in our waterways. Why then didn’t I heed my own advice? What happened? How did I get on swimming in the River Stour near Wimborne?

This 12-year-old just swam more than TEN MILES across Lake Tahoe! He’s the youngest to swim across the lake from east to west. It’s not his first achievement: he’s also the youngest to swim to Alcatraz and he received an honorary ESPY award earlier this year.

Dream, work hard, believe and do not cheat. Congratulations to the extraordinary Gaurvi Singhvi, a 16-year-old swimmer who successfully swam the English Channel solo today 23 August in a time of 13 hours and 28 minutes. See Serpentine Swimming Club

Following a morning swim in the Atlantic at the G7 summit in Biarritz, Boris Johnson had this metaphor for ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston when he questioned the Prime Minister on how a Brexit deal with the EU can be done before the October 31 deadline.  

Since year 11, my friend and I have been wanting to go on a school swimming tour to an international country. At one point we had mentioned to the teacher that by the time we have left Bancroft’s, we must have gone on a swim tour. Finally, after a couple years of talk, we had…

Dr Zeina Alsharkas from our Department of Economics swam across English Channel to highlight the plight of refugees fleeing her war-torn home country of Syria. Read more here: essex.ac.uk/news/2019/08/13/syrian-lecturer-successfully-completes-english-channel-swim

Angel More is a world champion swimmer at 16. Her most recent feat was swimming under 20 bridges around Manhattan. The 28.5 mile journey took nine hours. Angel’s been swimming since age 2. She’s competed in the California triple crown – a series of open water swimming marathons. She’s raised thousands of dollars along the…