Inspirational Stories

Thanks mate!

My partner, Keith, decided for me that I needed to get into ocean swimming when he gave me a wetsuit for my birthday in August last year. Thanks mate!

Ocean Swim Series is a great motivator

Well I am so pleased to have completed the Capital Classic this weekend.

My partner and her brother finished within seconds of each other. I am so proud of them

First time ocean swimmer

First time ocean racer; infact, this was the first competitive sporting thing I had done in 25 years!

I've been a competitive pool swimmer since I was 6

I've been a competitive pool swimmer since I was 6 and so I've been training at least 2 or 3 times a week for 50 years now! When I moved here from the UK in 2003 I'd never done an open water race before -nobody in their right mind swims for fun in the sea

Hi my name is Bradley Cullen I am 10 years old.

My mums thinks I should get a hair cut because when I came out of the water to ran up the sand I took off my cap and the man on the speaker though I was the 1st girl home. I had to tell him I was a boy.

The Mount Sand to Surf will be my first Ocean swim,

The Mount Sand to Surf will be my first Ocean swim, in fact I doubt I would have ever swam out of my depth before! It will be just 11 months since I had a disc removal and fusion of my lumbar spine, major surgery and rehab,

I came out of the 2009 soccer season injury free and decided that I wanted to keep up my fitness.

I used to be a competitive swimmer over 28 years ago and thought that I'd love to have a go at a triathlon. I started doing a few small ones to get started, and then did one that had an ocean swim - I loved it so did the Surf and Turf series of ocean swim

This has to be one of the best things I have ever done in my life!

Having moved from the UK, a lazy lump, who had not exercised properly for years, I was talked into entering this by a work mate who did the 750m after having a baby and encouraged a group of us to have a go

Swimming to help prepare for the big day!

Bronwyn and Simon are getting married in late March and using the Sovereign Corsair Classic to help them get ready!

Trying something new

Alexandra Wilson is new to Ocean Swimming and decided there is no time like now!

A Family Affair

Swimming is very important to the Fowler family

On Friday 20th March 2009 i became the oldest person in the world to swim Cook Strait i am 55yrs old. I was looking for a new challenge after 15 Ironmans and your Ocean swim series that i have done a few years now gave me the inspiration to take up the ch

Dave's inspiring story

Read about how this competitor took on the Ocean Swim!