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 ...

Over the festive period, Darren Dunne swam 30km over a ten-hour period in an effort to raise money for Nenagh Order of Malta, ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. UHA podcast guest Terri Dietz went above and beyond her ...

In one version of Irish myth, selkies were seals that turned into beautiful women at night when they went ashore. One night, a man trapped a selkie and made her his wife. They had a son. She loved her ...

As a journalist, I’m a creature of deadline. I signed up to participate in the challenge to swim 15 miles in June for the American Red Cross, and of course I waited until the very last day to finish.

British Olympic swimmer Hector Pardoe has reflected on completing a 55km open-water swim, inspired by the Three Peaks challenge, in 22 hours. Wrexham-born swimmer Pardoe - who competed at the Olympics ...