Cold-water swimmer
noun - A cold water swimmer is an athlete who does any form of open water swimming that is extreme in terms of water temperature and includes ice swimming. A cold water swimmer performs exploits in open bodies of water ranging from a frozen crust of ice to water under 10 degrees C.
A cold water swimmer may be synonymous with winter swimming or Avantouinti or Ice swimming in colder countries. This requires either breaking the ice or entering where a spring keeps the water from freezing over. This may also be simulated by a pool of water at 0°C, the temperature at which water freezes. Ice swimmers typically dip their heads below the surface to ensure that they are completely wet, whether or not the water is over their heads. They usually do not swim beneath the ice, as it is easy to get disoriented when turning around and not be able to find one's way back to the hole. Some ice swimmers avoid this problem by swimming from one hole to another, or by swimming under the ice while tethered to the shore.
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Open Water Swimming in Antarctica
- Lynne Cox was the first human to swim in Neko Harbor and in Antarctica without a wetsuit when she swam 1.2 miles in 2°C (35°F) waters in 25 minutes in 2002
- Ryan Stramrood, Ram Barkai and Kieron Palframan attempted an Ice mile in Neko Harbor in Antarctica in -1ºC (30.2ºF) waters on 4 March 2014
- Andrew Chin completed a 1 km swim while Toks Viviers and Gavin Pike completed an ice mile in Paradise Harbour in Antarctica in -1ºC (30.2ºF) water also on 4 March 2014
- Lewis Pugh has swum 1 km in 0°C waters off Petermann Island and 1 mile in 2°C (35°F) waters near Deception Island in 30 minutes 30 seconds, both in 2005
- Ram Barkai swam 1 km at 70º south latitude, near Maitri, the Indian scientific research station in Antarctica, in Long Lake in 1°C (33.8°F) waters in 2008.
- Bhakti Sharma swam 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in 1ºC water in the Southern Ocean in January 2015
Synonyms
Extreme swimmer, Ice swimmer, winter swimmer, polar bear swimmer, walrus, cold water swimmer
Videos of Cold-water Swimmers
2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships
2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships sanctioned by the International Ice Swimming Association, including the ice kilometer race in Burghausen, Germany.
2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships sanctioned by the International Ice Swimming Association, including the ice kilometer race in Burghausen, Germany.
External links
- 2025 International Ocean Film Festival Is On
- Lynton Mortensen Swims Around The Ice World In 80 Days
- The Extremely Cold Water Perception Scale
- Water Swimming Benefits And Safety Tips
- The Longest Ice Swim Challenge Achieved by Krzysztof Gajewski
- Quinn Fitzgerald's Unexpected World Title
- It’s Cold Outside. Time to Get In
- The Bluetits Chill Swimmers - Challenging Our Limits Together
- The Bluetits Facebook page
- Ice Ice babes ... Meyers Lake swim club embraces thrill of the chill
- Open Water Swimming
- How To Train For Open Water Swimming
- The Paradigm Of Time In The Open Water
- Nejib Belhedi Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year
- Bárbara Hernández Huerta Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year
- Original Triple Crown By Kamil Resa Alsaran Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
- Kosatka DV Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
- Making Your Own Pool
- 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Nominees
- Every Stress, Every Worry Just Disappears Getting Into The Water
- Nuala Shares Moore About Cold Water Swimming
- Should Extreme Swimming Be In The Olympics?
- Shawn White, Apolo Ohno And Ice Swimming In The Olympics
- Winter Swimming In Estonia
- The Human Mind Is A Powerful Thing In The Open Water
- Their Skin Turns Rosy And Their Jackets Red
- Chilling Out In A Glacial Groove
- Ice Exuberance By Jerome Leslie And Elaine Howley
- Super Heroes Of The Ice Swimming World
- How Cold Can It Go? FINA Races In Cold Water
- Do Ice Swimmers Have Bigger Brains?
- The Dark Shadows Of Neoprene In The Open Water World
- Ice Swim Africa 2013
- What Open Water Swim Could Be More Dangerous?
- Should Ice Swimming Be In The Olympics? Yes!
- If Ice Swimming Were In The Olympics, What Are The Rules?
- The Polar Olympics In Murmansk
- Murmansk Mile Across Kola Bay Is Totally Cool
- So Cool, So Bright, Jack
- Henri Kaarma Explains The Impossible
- Ice Swimming Exhibition At Winter Olympics Cancelled
- A Wave Of Winter Swimming Sweeps China
- Winter Olympics Is…Daring, Entertaining And Athletic
- Are You Ready For The Open Water?
- How Does Fitness And Fat Play A Role In Open Water?
- Positively Powerful Pádraig
- Speedy Swimming At Near Freezing Conditions
- Behind The Scenes In Murmansk
- Elina Making Taking Safety To Her Limits
- Ordinary People Achieving The Extraordinary In Murmansk
- 1st World Ice Swimming Championship To Be Presented
- Behind The Scenes In Murmansk
- March Madness in Murmansk
- March Madness In Murmansk, Part 2
- Wandi Really Ready
- Pooling The Finest In Cold Water Swimming - Part 1
- Pooling The Finest In Cold Water Swimming - Part 2
- Superhuman 1000 In 0.8°C
- SOS, Rescues And Saves In Ice Swimming Competitions
- The Power Of One, Henri Karma
- Vasily Mosin, Undressed And Fast
- The Highs And Lows Of Open Water Swimming
- Ice In His Vein - Albert Sobirov
- Team Matters In Ice Swimming
- Forza Italia In Ice
- Checking Up And Checking In For An Ice Swim
- 2015 Ice Swimming World Championship Results
- Elina Making Taking Safety To Her Limits
- Fast Frentic Freezing Freestyle
- Intense Competition Among World's Best Ice Swimmers
- The Power Of One, Henri Karma
- Why Ice Swimming Has It
- Medical Checks Before Ice Swimming
- Wood Goes From Wetsuit To Wounded To Winter
- If Dmitriy Can Dream It, He Can Help Build It
- Capturing Winter Swimming By Konstantin Soldatov
- Conference On Human Body Adaptations To Ice Swimming
- International Winter Swimming Association
- International Ice Swimming Association
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- Further Research And Study In The Ice
