Some say that open water swimming teaches you more about yourself than anything else. After completing a 10km test swim in Lama Passage for the Great Bear Swim I have to agree. It truly was a swim, and experience, like no other. My adventure started on a Friday with a three flight hop from Victoria…
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Me, Muhammad Ali and the Great Bear Swim
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali I think the three of the most common questions I am asked as a marathon swimmer are: 1. How do you prepare for a swim? 2. What do you think about while you are swimming? and; 3. What do…
Great Bear Treats!
I received a package in the mail today from a man named Sandy Gilchrist. He had heard about the Great Bear Swim and our desire to revive the stories of the Ocean Falls swimmers. He offered to help. Inside the package was a book – The History of Ocean Falls Amateur Swim Club (1926 t0 1974)…
What’s Up with Ocean Falls and Canadian Swimming?
In the 1950s and 1960s the Ocean Falls Amateur Swimming Club produced outstanding swimmers far out of proportion to the size of that small, isolated coastal community. The town of approximately 3000 residents won a remarkable 26 national swimming events. Located at the head of Cousins Inlet in the Great Bear Rainforest, Ocean Falls was…
Why swim the Great Bear Sea?
There’s a lot of places one can choose to swim around the world. Within the marathon swim community some of the more popular swims are the English Channel, North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar. These swims are officially the Ocean’s Seven and is considered…