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Posts by Jack Hudson

'It's Important We Find Our Tribe': Ian Darling (Interview)

For the fourth interview in our 'SwimTrekkers' series, we spoke to award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ian Darling, who just directed ‘The Pool’ about the iconic Icebergs pool in Sydney, Australia… Bondi Icebergs is known as the 'most photographed pool in the world' - any of you...

What’s New For 2025?

More trips will be on offer in 2025 than ever before! Spaces are already selling fast for our selection of new trips for 2025. The only problem you've raised is there may be too many to choose from. So, to make life a little easier, we've laid out all our 2025 additions below in order of...

Hellespont 2024: 'A Celebration Of Life'

The Hellespont swim is always a historic day in the SwimTrek calendar… This crossing from Europe to Asia is the adventure that inspired our founder, Simon Murie, to pioneer swimming holidays for a global market. Back in 2000, Simon celebrated his 30th birthday by doing this swim. He followed the...

'The World's Longest Swims': Sarah Thomas (Interview)

For the third interview in our 'SwimTrekkers' series, we spoke to the unstoppable ultra-marathon swimmer, Sarah Thomas... This was our third interview in this series and we were thrilled to chat with an inspiring swimmer who has completed some of the world's longest swims, Sarah...

'The Girl That Does Those Crazy Swims': Maya Merhige (Interview)

'I swim for each and every single person that has ever been touched by cancer...' Scoping out the Ocean's Seven as a high school senior is something outside the realms of imagining for most of us. Yet Maya Merhige is not your typical classmate. Aged 16, this Californian marathon...

2025: Seasonal Swim Calendar

2025 adventures in the world’s best open waters - our way to connect you to fellow swimmers, stunning locations and initiatives that are kind to our planet... Our partnership with 1% For The Planet continues, which offers 1% of our annual revenue to environmental partners. In our approach to B...

3 Key Questions: Improve Swimming Technique

What 3 questions are SwimTrek coaches asked most often? Every year we run Coaching Camps around the world. We speak to every species of swimmer you could imagine. Of course, our world-class coaches hear all kinds of questions too. In this blog, we've picked out 3 questions that keep coming...

'Breaking Boundaries': Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell (Interview)

Debut author. Double British Champion. First Black woman ever to swim for Great Britain. Who better to speak to than Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell for the second interview in our 'SwimTrekkers' series? There will always be boundaries in swimming - that much is clear to us from an early age. When...

2024: Nevis To St Kitts Race

Nevis to St Kitts race - a SwimTrekkers' experience.

New Trips For 2024!

SwimTrek's offerings this year are packed with Pioneer trips and waters we've never swum before, from Turkey's Bozburun Peninsula to the tropical open waters of Fiji... Explore our unique selection of new trips for 2024 as we dive deep into award-winning locations, curated and...