Whoever said swimming was not an extreme sport hasn’t heard of the many unique challenges that exist around the world. Every year, they pull swimmers out of their sheltered swimming pools into the ...

Ice swimming is the fastest growing extreme aquatic sport. Tens of thousands of swimmers now hit the cold water daily and before the COVID restrictions, thousands traveled to events from Siberia to ...

Holder of the Guinness World Record for the fastest swim between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Moroccan swimmer Hassan Baraka has pushed the boundaries of mental endurance with each of his adventures since ...

The Scandinavian winter swimming culture combines brief dips in cold water with hot sauna sessions—and now, a study of young men who participate regularly in these polar plunges finds that winter ...

When Barbara Hernandez was swimming for more than 35 kilometers across the North Channel, the strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland, the freezing waters and powerful currents were the least of ...

PORTSMOUTH — A renowned accordion player from the Seacoast will swim the length of Sagamore Creek on Saturday morning to raise money to buy ukuleles for sick children. Gary Sredzienski, of Kittery, ...

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As recently as the 1940s, New Yorkers swam in floating pools in the Hudson and East rivers. A safer alternative to swimming directly in the river, the municipal baths kept residents cool in hot summer ...

Jonathan Knott: It's not for the faint-hearted (no, medically it isn't), but cold-water swimming can boost circulation, immunity and the libido. So: here begins my bid to make next year's world ...

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