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Improve your day by setting intentions
Liz Lowe believes setting intentions using a chosen word can have a positive impact on our daily habits and interactions.
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How do I overcome my self-consciousness to enter a swimming event?
Swimming coach Cassie Patten answers a reader question about to feel less self-conscious when outdoor swimming, and how to be…
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Inspiring us this month: Amr Wolf
In our new series, we will be featuring swimmers and personalities who have inspired us by simply being themselves. This…
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Unexpected conflicts over water water use
Simon Griffiths reflects on how water projects can have unintended consequences.
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The wild swimmer of Kintail
Outdoor writer Kellan MacInnes takes on the challenge of wild swimming 28 high altitude hill lochs in a remote and…
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Spring Clean: the healing waters of springs
From geothermal spas to icy plunge pools, Rowan Clarke explores the clean, healing waters of springs.
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Small-scale fishing solutions
Working to understand the livelihood and ecology of small-scale fishing, Rodrigo Oyanedel, researcher at the SECOS Institute, Universidad Catolica de…
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Watch the rise
Warming weather and longer days present an ideal opportunity to sit beside a river and watch the rise – a…
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Water wildlife: Sea gooseberry
Susanne Masters introduces us to the sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus), an iridescent comb jelly that refracts light like a rainbow.
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Lido Guide: The energy crisis
The energy crisis that has dogged the first part of 2023 hit the leisure industry hard, and swimming pools in…
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Under my skin, under the water
Leilia Dore explains how cold water swimming has helped her and her body communicate with each other again after years…
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Diving for trash and treasure in the Lake District
Freediver Angus Hosking is on a mission to clean up litter from the lakes of the Lake District.
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Water wildlife: ground nesting birds
While you’re no doubt wary of disturbing nesting swans while swimming outdoors, it’s always worth considering your impact on ground…
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Water wildlife: Great diving beetle
Susanne Masters introduces us to the Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis), remarkable predators inhabiting slow-moving waterways, which carry a bubble…
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Pool skills: underwater dolphin kick
Improve your swimming with an underwater dolphin kick, says Simon Griffiths.
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Front crawl tips: don’t get caught out by the catch
There is a lot to work on before you start thinking about the underwater phase of front crawl, says Jonathan…
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Tips for swimming underwater
Relax and take it slow: Simon Griffiths shares some tips for underwater swimming.
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Diving for treasure: a history of pearl diving
Pearl diving is dangerous work that’s often been delegated to the marginalised and dispossessed. Elaine K Howley explores the history…
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Ice magic: freediving under ice
Addictive, ridiculously dangerous and pure magic: Amber Fillary on her love affair with freediving under the ice.
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Marine meditation: is freediving a natural extension of outdoor swimming?
Is freediving the preserve of the super-human or a natural extension of outdoor swimming and a gateway to a new…
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This must be underwater love
Photographer Lexi Laine invites us to dive into her underwater world. Words by Rowan Clarke.
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Create your own challenges
Not all challenges are to enter, or to follow, some are created ourselves. Alison Gilchrist set herself a series of…
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Changing seasons, changing climate, changing strokes: the long history of swimming
Have you ever wondered about the origins of swimming? How about how we came to swim outdoors in the cooler…
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Myth busting: “Everything in the southern hemisphere water wants to eat me!”
Great whites, blue-ringed octopus and reef-dwelling cone snails: marine biologist, writer and broadcaster Dr Helen Scales introduces us some of…
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The colour of cold: swimming in Cape Town, South Africa
With water temperatures averaging 13 degrees Celsius and air temperatures seldom above 32 degrees, Cape Town, South Africa, is a…
