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    The first time I swam in shoes, I discovered my feet were more important to swimming than I thought, even…

  • A beginner’s guide to wild swimming

    Daniel Start, author of Wild Swimming, shares his top tips for taking the plunge. ‘Wild Swimming’ is the ancient art…

  • How to choose prescription goggles

    Off-the-shelf prescription goggles only correct for distance, not astigmatism, so in order to calculate the power for your goggles, you…

  • The native origins of freestyle

    How white people named a style of swimming indigenous people had mastered millennia before

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    Is outdoor swimming safe?

  • Keep your phone safe while swimming

    In spring 2022, I upgraded to a new phone. I’d been struggling with an ageing Huawei that I’d hung onto…

  • “Swimming outdoors helps me cope with the loss of my daughter”

    After losing his daughter to cancer, Alan Holmes has found that outdoor swimming helps with stress and lifts his mood during dark times.…

  • How is open water swimming different to the pool?

    Understanding what you are getting into will give a big boost to your confidence levels and help keep you safe…

  • Opinion: Open water swimmers should be treated the same as their counterparts from more popular sports

    It is hypocritical to condemn elite open water swimmers seeking exemptions to travel to swim this year, while embracing other…

  • Photo gallery: The underwater wonders of the UK’s seas

    ​The Marine Conservation Society shares a selection of ocean photography showcasing the incredible animals on the UK's shores From the…

  • Thames Swimming – Teddington Lock to Molesey Lock

    The Thames is not often as clear of traffic as this How swimmers can reduce the risk of collisions on…

  • Swimterview: Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

    Missing the great outdoors and wild water? Ella Foote chats to Losing Eden Author Lucy Jones to discover why nature…

  • 5 minutes with author Jini Reddy

    Ahead of the paperback release of Wanderland: A search for magic in the landscape, we catch up with author Jini…

  • Diary of a Wandering swimmer – yellow tangs from a lava field

    Kate Gillwood was born in Galashiels, Scotland, raised from three years old in Yorkshire, found herself in London for 30…

  • Jaimie Monahan: Queen of Manhattan

    Jaimie Monahan, record-breaking marathon swimmer and Queen of the Ice, talks to Luke Chamberlain about her love affair with New…

  • No one owns the sea

    On 20 July Stephen Redmond became the first person to complete the 45km swim from Baltimore in Ireland to the…

  • Urban swimming in Berlin – exploring the land of 3000 lakes

    Peter and Dawn Springett moved to Germany in 2017. Here’s a guide to the local swimming culture and their favourite…

  • How lockdown could make you a better swimmer

    Swim coach Ray Gibbs from Swim Canary Wharf and Alice Todd from SwimQuest Holidays discuss the benefits of a break…

  • “What happened when I swam for 30 days in a row in the Thames in November”

    In winter, I’m a pool swimmer. After a summer of swimming outdoors, I use the autumn and winter months to…

  • How do you stay a swimmer when swimming isn’t an option?

    How do you stay a swimmer when swimming isn’t an option?

  • “I may have had cancer, but it isn’t going to rule my life”

    Audrey Hellen shares her swimming story I was always a pool swimmer as a child, representing my school and the…

  • What does hypothermia look like?

    We spoke to the experts to prepare this best-practice guide to spotting hypothermia and rewarming cold swimmers when swimming in…

  • Improving accessibility to outdoor swimming for deaf swimmers

    By Caroline Hurley All my life I have seen and experienced so many barriers to deaf swimmers. These created anxiety,…

  • Five things about swimming I wish I’d learnt sooner

    ​1. Cold water is not as big a barrier as you think it will be This might seem a strange…

  • 4-way English Channel swimmer Sarah Thomas talks cold water tolerance

    At first, cold water tolerance was a necessary evil for me to succeed in swimming – but I learnt to…

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