Swimmer's Daily

  • Meet the man who swims in toxic waterways, Christopher Swain.

    As part of his mission to protect threatened waterways, Christopher Swain was the first person in history to swim the entire lengths of the Columbia, Charles, Hudson, Mohawk, and Mystic Rivers, as well as Lake Champlain, the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, and large sections of the Atlantic coast of the United States.

    During his swims, Swain has survived collisions with boats, 12-foot waves, lightning storms, class IV+ rapids, waterfalls, logjams, toxic blue-green algae, blood-sucking Lamprey Eels, oil slicks, raw sewage spills, Great White Shark habitat, and water laced with arsenic, cyanide, dioxin, radioactive waste, PCBs and neuro-toxic pesticides.

  • We popped down to British Swimming’s National Centre Loughborough to talk about British Champs 2018 and racing at the RCP in Edinburgh.

  • Truly inspiring real life story of a swimmer who made himself more talented.

  • Strongman Swimming documents Ross Edgley’s incredible attempt to swim 40km with a 100lb tree tied to him between the Caribbean islands of St Lucia and Martinique.

    Finally, after months of training and preparation Ross heads to the start line to take on his challenge which no one has ever before tried, let alone completed.

  • For Eli Ball, Saturday’s Rottnest Channel Swim was always going to be a bit out of the ordinary.

    The Sydney lawyer, 34, was swimming the 19.7 kilometre ocean race in butterfly rather than the traditional freestyle, and admitted he attracted a lot of “quizzical looks” from others as the race got under way.

    It was a calm day and his butterfly technique, as unusual as it seemed to others, allowed him to get a good look at the sea floor with every stroke.

    About 12 kilometres into the race, Mr Ball told Radio 6PR he was swimming behind his support boat when he noticed a large shark swim underneath it.

    “It was at the bottom of the sea floor; I’m not very good at estimating depths of water when I’m that far out to sea, but I’d say it was maybe 12 metres deep at that point,” he said.

    “The thing that stuck out in my mind at the time… what I remember thinking to myself is, ‘my goodness it’s wide’, it was very, very wide,” he said.

    Read WAtoday

  • These guys and girls are nuts! Such fun creating this video of Cape Town’s inaugural 6 hour endurance open water swim challenge. Individual and team competition at Clifton from 8am to 2pm on Saturday 17 February 2018.

  • Top USA Swimming officials are under fire for what critics say was a culture of sexual abuse that was allowed to persist for decades unchecked.

    A stunning new investigative report first published in the Orange County Register found that since 1997, more than 250 coaches and officials were either arrested, charged or disciplined by USA Swimming for sexual abuse or misconduct.

    The paper — citing, documents, interviews with abuse survivors, former Olympians, USA Swimming officials and others — claims that there are at least 590 victims. According to the report, the organization’s top brass was aware of the problem, but did little, if anything, to stop it.

    USA Swimming’s president and CEO, Tim Hinchey, publicly reacted to the report, writing in part, “While we disagree on several of the reported statements and many of the conclusions in recent media reports, members were failed, and we are doing everything we can to make sure it never happens again.”

    See CNN

  • Winter swimming in an old watermill spring in February 25, 2018.