CLDSA News

Aching shoulders and huge grins sum up what the Langebaan Express means to scores of open water swimmers! They came from all over the country, goggles

Big Bay Events director Derrick Frazer recently completed his 1000th Robben Island crossing Everyone’s favourite skipper, weather guru and water safety organiser made the unofficial record

The CLDSA acknowledges the 1000th official Robben Island crossing since the club was founded in 1969. Dial back the clock 52 years. There’s no V&A Waterfront.

Scores of female swimmers took to the sea off Simonstown this month for the first ever Simon’s Bay Mile. This women’s-only event, presented by Swim Cape

We get on them frantically, we jump off them reluctantly. We nod wisely at their pitch and their yaw. We caress our hands lovingly along their

He’s the quiet, unassuming dude on the boat who transforms your floundering fret and spindrift into glorious poster-sized rectangles of eternity. We chat to the artist

During the dark, dog day drear of World War Two, a submarine alarm went off on Robben Island. Were the Germans invading? Crew stationed there dismissed

And it’s a warm welcome from glorious Ireland this month, as the CLDSA chats to the members of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association (ILDSA). You

Why We Swim, By Bonnie Tsui “This summer I went swimming/ This summer I might have drowned/ But I held my breath and I kicked my