Category: Winter Swimming
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Ice Swim Racing In Finland Is Not For The Faint Of Heart
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Dash and splash: Tips for cold water swimming
Cold water swimming is making a splash across the United Kingdom. But if you are one of those who is going to keep the hobby up during the winter, here are five tips to help keep you safe. They come from Bangor, County Down, where a group of swimmers celebrated an anniversary with a fancy…
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Can cold water swimming treat depression?
Jumping into the sea in winter is the most alive and present I ever feel. I get in fast – a dangerous approach if you’re a beginner – when the cold shock response provokes an uncontrollable urge to inhale. Underwater, I feel an intense mixture of burning pain and, even after doing this for years,…
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Nude winter swim ends Hobart’s Dark Mofo festival
A record 1,537 naked bodies galloped down a Hobart beach in chilly 7C in the annual mad dash of Dark Mofo’s winter solstice nude swim. It was ‘refreshing’ and ‘invigorating’, participants said, dressed only in red swimming caps
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Super Woman Swims in the Antarctic Ocean | Only Human
Lynne Cox is an endurance swimmer, who can survive freezing cold waters that would make normal people suffer from chronic nerve damage or even death. Being an extraordinary human, she is gifted with an unexplainable ability to resist cold temperatures, and she has now decided to swim more than a mile in the Antarctic Ocean…
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April Fool’s Day Swim 2018
The annual April Fool’s Day Swim for charity, sponsored by the Chatham Cape Cod fire department, was held on April 2nd this year due to the 1st falling on Easter Sunday. Despite a day of snow and drizzle and 39 ° water temperature at Hardings Beach, about 50 brave people took the plunge and had…
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Swimmers take sub zero plunge in Estonian swimming championship
The 2018 Winter Swimming World Championships came to a close on Saturday (March 10) in Talinn, Estonia. https://youtu.be/7hi1HE020Ug
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Training for Red Bull Neptune Steps
Caitlin getting used to 2 degree water in preparation for the Red Bull Neptune Steps event with Arena wetsuits.