CLDSA News

Images courtesy of Louisa Theart, Newton Stanford and Anton Robert. Formerly known as 1SOMS. Skins or wetsuits, more than a million metres of open water are […]

Keen to get cracking on the second leg of her epic swim from Durban to Cape Town, but struggling for funding, ultra athlete Sarah Ferguson says […]

New SA women’s record set! In their own words! South African Olympic 10km swimmer Michelle Weber broke the SA women’s record for the fastest English Channel […]

Just weeks after a double mastectomy, a Cape Town woman turned to the healing power of the cold ocean, and now has her sights set on […]

How and why the first South African swam the English Channel. A wife’s perspective… Kay Bales (far left) with CLDSA ex-Treasurer Felicity Pentland-Smith and CLDSA chair […]

PROGRAM:FRIDAY: 6-7PM MEET AND GREET, BRING YOUR OWN DRINKS. DINNER @ THE PUMPKIN HOUSE.SATURDAY MORNING : EARLY AM SWIM LANGEBAAN OR 12KM BEACH HIKE ON PRISTINE […]

Whether it’s the presence of a world-class, cold water swim training venue just up the coast from Cape Town, sheer national gees, or the canny seamanship […]

A legend of a swimmer tells a legend of a tale about the first successful False Bay crossing, back in 1989. It is early 1989, and […]