Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. I saw a couple of nurse sharks about halfway through the swim that’s all. We’ve been to Eleuthera about a dozen times since 2006 and have seen quite a few sharks there…. nurse, reef, lemon, hammerhead and bulls. The water is so clear that it’s usually from a distance […]

Aisling Beacom from Wicklow Town is one of 126 athletes who will represent Ireland at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Aisling will participate in the aquatics competition and is currently busy training and preparing for the Games. This isn’t the first time that Aisling has represented Ireland on the international stage. Through Special

When swimmers cross a channel or participate in an ocean swim, they tend to most vividly remember the extremes of their swims. That is, the swimmers wax poetically about their swims over the tranquil beauty of a flat ocean especially when the sun sets or sun rises and their challenges across the roughest, toughest turbulence