Inaugural Electric Eel Swim
23 January 2023
Weekends have never looked busier! Loads of swimmers turned out for the first Electric Eel Swim Series, under a moody Table Mountain . Organiser Jon Vickers, […]
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The all eleven swim
18 November 2022
Breaststroker Kim Prytz just swam the 18km Big Bay-RI-Melkbos in 11 hours. On the 11th day of the 11th month, international armistice day – the first […]
Smiler’s Gallery
17 November 2022
There must have been something in the air this month. Maybe it’s because summer is coming, or maybe you all got pay hikes, but everyone seems […]
36ONE Splash Dash Pics
17 November 2022
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 […]
Whither, Sarah Ferguson?
16 November 2022
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 […]
Channel Eight News
19 August 2022
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 […]
Cold Comfort
12 August 2022
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 […]
Kay Bales remembers
10 August 2022
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 […]