Surf & Ocean
Open water swimming: the hazards that are not the distance
Pool fitness transfers poorly to open water. Cold, current, visibility and boats account for far more incidents than a lack of endurance.
Topic
swimming
Every Extreme Sports Adventures article tagged swimming — 4 pieces across 2 sections.
Whitewater
Foot entrapment: why you never stand up in moving water
It happens in water people would describe as shallow. It happens to strong swimmers. And it happens because the most natural instinct in the world is the wrong one.
Surf & Ocean
Rip currents: stop fighting them and start using them
A rip is the fastest way out the back and the most common reason people drown at beaches. Same water, same physics — the difference is entirely whether you understand what it is doing.
Whitewater
You are out of the boat: the first ten seconds of a whitewater swim
Everyone swims eventually. What separates a bad afternoon from a fatality is almost entirely what the swimmer does in the first few seconds, before anyone else can help.