OSS would like to say thank you to our friends; benefactors. partners, associations & societies, clubs, festivals, and overseas friends alike, who share our passion for outdoor swimming and want to tell the world about it. Other friends have some useful outdoor swimming resources.
Associations, Societies & :Outdoor Clubs:
RIVERS & LAKE SWIMMING ASSOCIATION
The Rivers and Lake Swimming Association is a campaigning group run by two tireless and devoted outdoor swimmers Yacov Lev and Rob Fryer. www.river-swimming.co.uk is full of expert information on local outdoor swimming campaigns and where and how to swim safely. Well worth a visit.
SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB
The SSC is one of a few outdoor swimming clubs around the country, with swimmers taking the plunge 365 days of the year at the Serpentine in Hyde Park. www.serpentineswimmingclub.com/
SOUTH LONDON SWIMMING CLUB
A thriving swimming club based at Tooting Bec Lido in London. The SLSC is home to recreational and channel swimmers. It’s also bringing the glory of the World Winter Swimming Championships to London in 2008, complete with floating plastic icebergs. Want to swim for your country? See www.slsc.org.uk
EASTBOURNE SWIMMING CLUB
Visit our map page to find out more about this active club with a members open water section. Also find out about their 2k and 5k sea swims this summer in our events page. See www.eastbourneswimmingclub.org
Benefactors & generous friends:
AGITPROP
Jim Holt and Josh Holliday from Agitprop Design & Communications donated hours of their time and patience to creating this all-singing, all-dancing OSS website with a map, shop and email so we can write to you... for which you may be as grateful as we are. www.agitprop.co.uk
AQUA SPHERE
Their seal mask is the unofficial goggle of the OSS, featuring heavily in Kate Rew's book Wild Swim and generously donated to our sponsored swimmers in USA Pro Breastrokes swims in 2006 and 2007. Keep the great product innovation coming... www.aquasphereswim.co.uk.
FALLON
Fallon advertising agency are very lovely talented people who generously donate their time and artistic expertise to the OSS, creating our logos and event posters, and we'd like to give especial thanks to Alex Sullivan and Richard Flintham for doing such a great job. www.fallon.co.uk.
GUARDIAN
The Guardian newspaper group have been an integral part of the current wild swimming revolution - having the bravery to publish the first guide to the subject (Kate Rew's Wild Swim) and the first to make wild swimming films it (whereafter mainstream channels have followed).
PEDLARS
They make stuff that they love, that we love too, so we are grateful to Pedlars for making the OSS River Lido at Port Eliot festival possible. www.pedlars.co.uk.
RED STONE
Thank you to this innovative design company for their striking logo for our Dart10k swim, September 2010. www.red-stone.com.
TOAST
OSS volunteers work long hours to make this society what it is. Thank you for Toast to recognising that and giving our June 2010 volunteers of the month presents. www.toast.co.uk. Also home to a story by OSS Founder Kate Rew on swimming in cenotes in Mexico.
THE BLUE MILE
The Blue Mile - Race for the Environment is the UK's newest mass-participation, open water event designed to engage people actively with our blue environment and to encourage steps to look after it.
See the events section for details on the inaugural Blue Mile event in Plymouth on 03rd and 04th July 2010. It's open to everyone. To enter or for further information about The Blue Mile 2010, please go to www.thebluemile.org
SWIMFORTRI
Based in London, is a swim technique and coaching concept brought to you by the brother and sister team of Dan and Keeley Bullock. They share over 30 years experience of competitive swimming, coaching, teaching swim lessons and direct involvement with the sport of Triathlon as competitors and coaches. See www.swimfortri.com
BRITISH GAS GREAT SWIM
The largest series of mass swims in the country: one mile races in four natural lakes around the country, led off by Olympic athletes and elites. The Great North Swim attracted 6000 swimmers in 2009. www.greatswim.org
THE WALES SWIM
The Wales Swim is a 1500m and 3000m sea swim that takes place at North Beach, Tenby, Pembrokeshire in September 2010. Activity Wales are making a charitable donation of £5 to the OSS for every entry that comes from the society in support of our work. Thank you friends. www.thewalesswim.com.
KESWICK MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL
On the shore of Derwentwater, beneath the classic summits of Skiddaw and Catbells, you’ll find the www.keswickmountainfestival.com or see our events pages.
PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL
Possibly the best festival in the land: Port Eliot is a Cornish literary festival with a rock and roll edge. And the Outdoor Swimming Society delivering river swimming. In 2009 swimmers swam down the Lynher in a journey, in 2010 almost 500 swimmers took to the water in a temporary river lido that came and went with the tide.
U.S. Open Water Swimming Connection is a nonprofit organization. It's goal is to promote open water swimming in the U.S.A and inform swimmers about events, technique, training methods and share experiences and information between swimmers. Visit them at http://usopenwaterswimming.org
A most comprehensive historical and contextual web resource all UK lidos built in the 1930s or earlier, and, as a bonus, to provide enough detail on these and all other open-air swimming pools still open, for people to visit them.
Open water swimming news from around the world.
Training and event news on triathlons.
A great source for lunchtime workouts and swim tips from OSS Chief Coach and Swimfortri owner Dan Bullock.
Endurance Life are all about challenging yourself in inspiring locations, and believe experience is more important than stuff. Here here.