Swimmer's Daily

  • 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.

  • On February 24, the Lords and Ladies swimming and diving teams took part in their annual Fast Chance Invitational. Here are some of the sights from James A. Steen Aquatics Center.

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  • Film from the Swedish Open Winter Swim 2018 in SkellefteÃ¥, part of the world cup series in winter swim.

    This year it was about 400 swimmers from 21 countries. This year it was only abut -5 celsius in the air and the water temperature was 0 celsius.

    https://youtu.be/o_SwMj8AKbY

  • Pac-12 Networks’ Amy Van Dyken and Rich Burk recap Stanford’s championship-clinching week, finishing with 1,776.5 points. Katie Ledecky was named Swimmer of the Meet, breaking American and NCAA records in the 400 IM and three more titles. Simone Manuel took home three titles (one individual), breaking American and NCAA records in the 400 medley relay. Cal came in second (1,487 points), with Kathleen Baker taking home five titles (two individual).

  • Little Brother Jack reads an extract from the upcoming Wild Swimming Brothers book: Swim Wild. In this passage he talks about the calming experience of finding the swimmer’s ‘sweet spot’ whilst crossing the Moskstraumen in Norway.

    Swim Wild is now available to pre-order. Follow the link below to secure your copy. The hardback will be released on April 19th, published by Yellow Kite Books.

    Pre-order Swim Wild – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swim-Wild-na…

    https://youtu.be/T7Lz7Zi8egI