Podcasts by SWIMMING WITH THE POD

Ocean swimming... and connecting with blue spaces from 2023-11-30T20:55:48

Rebecca Olive is an ocean swimmer whose academic research explores the role of sport and leisure in human and environmental health. I...

Ocean swimming... and culture, inclusion and society from 2023-10-26T19:19:09

Michelle O’Shea is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University whose research interests dive into the areas of sport, ...

Ocean swimming... and germs from 2023-09-05T22:06:30

Primrose Freestone, Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Leicester and science communicator, is an infectiou...

Ocean swimming... and a healthy brain from 2023-08-05T14:34:48

Seena Mathew is Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. As a neurobiologist, she studies the effe...

Ocean swimming... and swimmer’s ear from 2023-07-25T20:33:37

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Ocean swimming... Alcatraz (part 2) from 2023-06-30T19:40

Rolf Hut is a hydrological scientist...

Ocean swimming... with Andy Donaldson from 2023-05-30T21:57:02

Andy Donaldson is a world-recorder holding open-water swimmer. In 2023, he is attem...

Ocean swimming... Alcatraz (part 1) from 2023-05-07T17:26:09

Pedro Ordenes is an Alcatraz legend, having swum the famous route over 1000 times!! Pedro runs World Ice Swimming Championships in France...

Ocean swimming... with Lynne Cox from 2022-06-18T18:00:16

Lynne Cox is arguably the most accomplished ocean swimmer of all time. She set the record for the English Channel in 1972, was the first woman to swim the...

Ocean swimming... and seaweed textiles from 2022-05-21T16:11:01

Professor Peter Ralph is Executive Director of the Climate Change Cluster in the Faculty of Science at UTS, and is partnering with Australia...

Ocean swimming... butterfly from 2022-02-24T21:21:44

Eli Ball is training to swim the English Channel... butterfly. Yes, you read that correctly. Butt...

Ocean swimming... around Lord Howe Island from 2021-10-10T18:51:52

Lauren Tischendorf is the first woman to swim solo around Lord Howe Island - 32.2 km of sharks, currents, 25 knot winds and 2.5 metre swell, finishin...

Ocean swimming... with Brendan Cullen from 2021-09-20T20:04:19

Brendan Cullen is training to swim the English channel, but wha...

Ocean swimming... with Peter Hancock from 2021-08-12T19:19:30

Peter Hancock has now swum well over 1000 consecutive days, most days in Dumaresq Dam in Armidale, central NSW. Often t...

Ocean swimming... with Jaimee Rogers from 2021-07-04T15:11:49

Jaimee Rogers hosts the Big Sports Breakfast progra...

Ocean swimming... in the nude from 2021-06-04T19:19:59

Jon Stagg has completed the Dark Mofo Nude Solstice Swim every year since its inception. What makes someone swim nude in the mi...

Ocean swimming... in La Nina from 2021-04-18T20:24:43

If you live on the east coast of Australia, your ocean swimming season has been rudely interrupted by the weather, with swims cancelled up and down the coast because of high swells and flooding....

Ocean swimming... and Australian beach history from 2021-03-05T11:03:33

Associate Professor Anna Clark is an ocean lover, fisher and historian at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has extensively researche...

Ocean swimming... with John Sheely from 2021-02-02T16:34:12

John Sheely is head gardener at the Warrnambool Botanical Gardens, an acclaimed ocean swimmer who, with pools closed due to covid, has now swum Chloe McCardel is probably the world's best ocean swimmer. She holds the record for the world's longest unassisted ocean swim (124.4 km), has crossed the...

Ocean swimming... the Coals to Newcastle from 2020-10-21T16:22:31

Craig Clarke is a champion Australian surf life-saver who has had a dream of swimming the English Channel since watching Des Renford in the 1970s. He had a slot booked in for this year, and then...

Ocean swimming... in extreme environments from 2020-09-21T17:07

Heather Massey is a senior lecturer in the Bold and Beautiful are an informal Sydney swim group for all ages and abilities who meet out the front of Manly Life Saving Club every day...

Ocean swimming... and underwater forests from 2020-07-15T11:27:43

Crayweed, a type of seaweed, forms dense forests on shallow reefs all the way from Port Macquarie to Tasmania. However, there is a 70 km gap in crayweed off the coast of Sydney. Sometime during ...

Ocean swimming... with Shane Gould from 2020-06-05T16:09:53

Dr. Shane Gould is the only swimmer to hold every world freestyle record from 100 to 1500 metres and the 200-metre individual medley simultaneously. She is the first female swimmer to win three ...

Ocean swimming... and Places We Swim from 2020-04-29T13:49:21

Caroline Clements and Dillon Seitchik-Reardon run the beautiful website Places we swim and have just released a book, also called Places we swim, a tr...

Ocean swimming... and COVID-19 from 2020-03-26T19:40:53

Hannah Sassi is a virologist from the University of Sydney who studies the persistence of viruses in the environment. She is also ...

Ocean swimming... and event organisation from 2020-03-10T10:22

The Cole Classic is one of Sydney's oldest and largest ocean swims. It has a storied h...

Ocean swimming... and The Memory Pool from 2020-01-10T12:28:02

Therese Spruhan must be one of Australia's experts on the cultural impact of the swimming pool. Her recent book, Dean Summers has conquered the triple Crown of open water swimming and as I type this, is wait...

Ocean swimming... and extreme endurance from 2019-11-19T17:29:46

Tim Garrett is an extraordinary athlete. Not content with swimming some of the world's most famous and gruelling waterways, Tim tags on runs and rides of h...

Ocean swimming... with the wild swimming brothers from 2019-09-22T10:18:44

Wild swimming is something of a cousin to ocean swimming. Or is ocean swimming a subset of wild swimming? Either way, wild swimming is huge across the world, and particularly in the UK and Europ...

Ocean swimming... and wave power from 2019-09-07T18:49:40

Dr. Mark Hemer is a Principal Research Scientist leading the Sea-Level, Waves and Coastal ...

Ocean swimming... and tsunamis from 2019-08-27T20:25:21

What is the likelihood of a tsunami hitting your favourite beach? Dr. Hannah Power, from University of Newcastle's 

This happened to Dr. Ian Wrig...

Ocean swimming... with whales (part 2) from 2019-07-05T21:05:18

Scott Portelli is an acclaimed wildlife and underwater photographer, and has swum with whales and other magnificent creatures of the deep in some of t...

Ocean swimming... with whales (part 1) from 2019-06-21T16:37:08

During winter, you're probably familiar with human snot, but are you familiar with whale snot? Dr. Vanessa Pirotta is!

Vanessa is a ...

Ocean swimming... and the box jellyfish antidote from 2019-06-05T17:03:18

Last time we talked about stingers, we learnt some valuable insights - don't wee on them! Turns out, there may be some...

Ocean swimming... and oceanswims.com from 2019-05-17T15:23:30

Whether you are an experienced or aspiring ocean swimmer, if you are in Australia or New Zealand, you will visit oceanswims.com. Oceanswims.com handles th...

Ocean swimming... and sand from 2019-04-16T22:22:25

Dr Gary Greenberg is a scientist, author, teacher and photographer who combines his passion for art and science by exploring the hidden small-...

Ocean swimming... and ocean pools from 2019-03-17T14:44:23

Ocean pools are a delight. I love swimming in them, and they are also quite often simply beautiful places to be. Dr. Marie-Louise McDermott has written a PhD on ocean pools ( Listen

Ocean swimming... in rips from 2018-12-01T09:30:50

Rips claim an order of magnitude more lives than shark attacks in Australia, and are arguably the most dangerous facet of going to the beach.

Ram Barkai is the founder of the International Ice Swimming Association - they are ...

Ocean swimming... the English Channel from 2018-04-28T17:05

Sally Catt is an ocean swimmer who this year is tackling the English Channel. She is raising money for Andre Slade runs OceanFit, which is an open water swim school run at Bondi Beach. Andre has been in...

Ocean swimming... in polluted rivers from 2018-03-13T19:32:41

The Cooks River in Sydney has been variously described as an open sewer, the Beachwatch test the water quality of Sydney beaches to see if they are suitable for swimming...

Ocean swimming... in plastic pollution from 2017-12-12T15:02:57

It is estimated that ocean plastics will outweigh ocean fish by 2050, according to a study by the World Economic Forum...

Ocean swimming... on other planets from 2017-11-27T15:19:14

Can you ocean swim on other planets? Perhaps! Water is far more common in the Universe than you might think, and there are many other oceans out there, even on our neighbours in our own solar sy...

Ocean swimming... with flesh-eating sea lice from 2017-11-18T08:29

A Melbourne man recently emerged from the ocean with his