Alcatraz. The distance may ‘only’ be 1.5 miles and thousands of people have successfully completed it, but this swim shouldn’t be underestimated. For prisoners incarcerated on this rocky outcrop, escaping once would have been enough. However, Garry Emich, from San Francisco, is planning to become...

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Here are some of the most common swim coaching inquires our London swimming coach Dan Abel has received: I want to swim faster and more efficiently I have trouble with my breathing I am training for an open water swim or triathlon and need help I have had shoulder trouble/injury If you have...

A few lovely days of Open Water Swimming Gili islands, Indonesia Simon Murie, SwimTrek founder enjoying an Indonesian sunset. The 3 islets that make up the Gili Islands are located in the Lombok Strait, between the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Bali. They extend outward from the Sire...

Waterlog - A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain Roger Deakin, Chatto & Windus, 0-7011-6652-5     Inspired by John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” Roger Deakin sets off on a swimming tour of the British Isles.   From the Scilly Isles...

It’s Christmas time and it is the season to wrap up warm, eat mince pies and spend time with friends and family in front of cosy fires or is it? Perhaps this year you could ring the changes and celebrate the festive period by joining in at the many of Christmas swims & festive dips taking...

"I swim in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.” Lord Byron, 1809 So said the English poet Lord Byron after...

Congratulations to Michael and Suzanne on their recent SwimTrek marriage engagement. The happy couple were SwimTrekking in Greece this September when Michael popped the big question. Above is a picture of Michael and Suzanne with their 3D engagement card/t-shirt made by their guide Trish which...

The photograph was taken in the bay of my home village of Cawsand, South East Cornwall. This is the third time I have swum with Dolphins To begin with I was a bit freaked by their size but they really just like to play. It's so exciting. I've been on 7 Swimtrek holidays and the only thing...

SwimTrek’s Maddalena (Sardinia) pilot is Marco Piras who is a native of Maddalena and has been living on the island his whole life. His family have been fisherman for generations and as a child he used to go out with his father whenever he wasn’t at school. Marco has been SwimTrek’s pilot in...