Our 3.8km Seahorse Swim is on 27 June 2010 near Knoll Beach. Learn more about seahorses below and tell your friends.

View video of the 2009 swim on 6 Sept 2009 in Poole Harbour. 150 swimmers took to the water to compete in the annual 4.6 mile swim around the island.

“I’ve always been drawn to water. Maybe it’s all the fun it’s given me, all the adventures. Perhaps it’s how I feel when I’m in it – I feel free.” - Robson Green

Coaches Quarterly offers innovative training ideas and invaluable tips and the Spring 2008 edition features an open water report.

East Dorset Club members enjoyed a time trial swim over a measured course from Shore Road to Sandbanks swim zones and back on Tuesday 18 August 2009. For the unitiated that’s apparently 880 of Bob Holman’s paces.

The results below will be used to handicap times for the next time trial.

Actor Robson Green experiences serene lakes, iconic rivers and chilly seas in a brand new series for ITV1. Along the way he met with up club member Bob Holman and a diverse range of wild swimmers who keep Britain’s waters alive with their passion for getting back to nature and finding our greatest watery locations. Read how Bob helped Robson rekindle his own passion for wild swimming and love affair with the water in their visit to Devon’s Tinside Lido.

After two years of using the revised Open Water qualifications scheme it has become apparent that there is a need to make the process more focused on the candidates and to give more direction as they progress with their experience and qualifications. A decision has also been made to align the qualification steps with those being used for pool officials.

Gerry Griffin marked his 60th birthday in August 2008 by undertaking his greatest ever swimming challenge in aid of four charities. He swam the 22 mile distance of the English Channel in the space of one week in Purbeck Sports Centre pool.

David Davies, Keri-Anne Payne and Cassandra Patten talk about the significance of their Beijing glory, their competitive goals leading to the London 2012 Olympic Games, and how to excel in the rapidly expanding sport of open water.

Dr. Jim Miller, the former President of US Masters Swimming, FINA Doping Control Officer at several FINA open water swimming races and the physician for several USA Swimming’s national open water teams, gave an easy-to-understand presentation on Sports Medicine in Open Water Swimming.