CLDSA News

One is tough enough, so how on earth do you prepare for a double Robben Island crossing? We chat to Troy Mayers who completed his second […]

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 […]