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Is 'wild swimming' the answer to pool season ending? What to know about the risks — and benefits — associated with open-water dips.

The “wild swimming” trend — aka open-water swimming, or taking dips in lakes, rivers, streams or even the sea — isn't exactly new. Still, it has been increasing in popularity over the past ...
ABC12

Swimming pools vs. wild swimming -- a germs expert on which is worse

Wild swimming has grown massively in popularity in recent times. Not only is swimming outdoors a pleasant way to enjoy the sunshine, fresh air and green leafy surroundings, it can also help to ...
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Building an underground swimming pool - Part 2

In this video, we continue our project by building an underground swimming pool in the wild for a perfect holiday escape.
Refinery29

How Wild Swimming As A Black Woman Helped Me Heal From My Grief

When I went swimming for the first time it felt like freedom. I can still remember 5-year-old me bouncing in my car seat, the sharp tang of chlorine as I entered our local leisure centre and the ...
AOL

7 of the best wild swimming spots in the UK

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). There’s no better way to immerse yourself in nature than by going wild swimming. Every spot tells its own story: tidal pools fed by ...
THE WEEK

Swimming pools vs. wild swimming: which is worse for germs?

Primrose Freestone, senior lecturer in clinical microbiology at the University of Leicester looks at the growing trend of wild swimmining and whether fears of germs and unwanted bacteria are founded ...