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There is more to ocean swimming than just swimming in the ocean. In The Pod, we chat about all aspects of ocean swimming, from how we can keep the oceans swimmable, to oceans on other planets.
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- Mar 24, 202554 min
Ocean swimming... and ocean health
Matthew England is Australia’s leading ocean modeller and the world’s foremost authority on the modelling of the Southern Ocean. And an ocean swimmer / surfer from way back! Matthew researches the future health of our oceans under pressures such as climate change and pollution. We also talked about the mysterious tar balls that washed up on Sydney beaches in 2024 and messages in a bottle thrown overboard finding the right people! Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: Ocean Angels - MBryan England - 양홍원 Stealing England - Dr Dugger Sapphire - Tobu Photo from UNSW
- Nov 30, 202423 min
Ocean swimming... in Sydney's ocean pools
Justine Nolan, Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW, has swum all 45 of Sydney's glorious ocean pools. Inspired by Places We Swim (have a listen back to our podcast ep with Caroline and Dillon), Justine journeyed across Sydney at the end of covid, enjoying our newfound freedoms, to explore one of Sydney's most unappreciated yet sublime features. Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: Upper Harbour Highway - Sci-Clone Blue Harbour - EuLiLa Pools - Grizzly Beatz Sapphire - Tobu Photo by me! (Bilgola)
- Aug 9, 202449 min
Ocean swimming... and free diving
Michaela Werner is free diver, who in 2023, set a new world record, becoming the first woman to swim 101 underwater laps of a 25-metre pool in an hour. Born in Slovakia, she moved to Australia at age 19 where she fell in love with freediving. Michaela can swim 200m underwater, can hold her breath for six minutes and is a qualified free-diving instructor and coach. Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: Let Me Breathe (Wardub) - Rhekluse Breathe - INOSSI Breathe - LiQWYD hold your breath - ikkunn Free Dive - Cymatish Sapphire - Tobu Photo from Michaela on instagram
- Feb 27, 202454 min
Ocean swimming... and biomechanics
Anthony Blazevich is a Professor of Biomechanics in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. He is also the head of the Centre for Exercise and Sports Science Research, so is a fabulous person to talk to about biomechanics, body types and how our physiology affects our ability to move through water. Listen in to hear how you could tweak your stroke for quicker times, and why we still may see many more world records in the pool (and ocean). He has also conducted extremely interesting research on the benefits (or not) of stretching. Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: Biomechanics - Bit Funk & Jason Gaffner Biomechanics - I.D.L.E Biomechanics - Greyscale Music Sapphire - Tobu Photo created by me using Bing AI Image Creator
- Nov 30, 202337 min
Ocean swimming... and connecting with blue spaces
Rebecca Olive is an ocean swimmer whose academic research explores the role of sport and leisure in human and environmental health. In particular, her work explores the practices and cultures of ocean swimming and surfing to understand how human and environmental well-being interact, as well as our relationships to all things blue-space, such as sharks, animals, plastics, pollution and health. Her Moving Oceans website examines how participation in ocean sports shapes our behaviours towards taking care of the oceans. She has also published some fantastic reads in The Conversation - we talk about these two in the podcast: When we swim in the ocean, we enter another animal’s home. Here’s how to keep us all safe. Olympic swimming in the Seine highlights efforts to clean up city rivers worldwide. Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: off-set flippers x - bowdeeni fish x Crocodile Teeth Freestyle - Lajan Slim Olive - evildirk Olive - Słejzi Wysocki Olive Spring @ Imperss Music 2022 Sapphire - Tobu Image from Moving Oceans
- Oct 26, 20231h 5m
Ocean swimming... and culture, inclusion and society
Michelle O’Shea is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University whose research interests dive into the areas of sport, culture and society, particularly with regard to swimming. She has looked into issues such as why swimming lessons for kids are important, as well as the role of the swimming pool in society. Her research particularly examines issues relevant to gender and diversity, and how the pool and the beach, despite the great Australian egalitarian myth, can be quite exclusionary places. Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: The Magic of Diversity - The Egotwisters Inclusion - Tenshou Kikiko Diversity - Africk Culture Vulture - Vincent Remember Sapphire - Tobu Image from wikicommons
- Sep 5, 202329 min
Ocean swimming... and germs
Primrose Freestone, Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Leicester and science communicator, is an infectious diseases expert, and has dived into the debate of whether swimming in a pool or in the natural environment is the safer option. She also takes us through the cleanliness of hot-tubs (hint, they're gross.) Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: Bugs - GNAAR Bugs - Phillip Barker Bug's Land - Vadim Krakhmal Little bugs - i m p a u s e a b l e Sapphire - Tobu Photo from wikimedia
- Aug 5, 202321 min
Ocean swimming... and a healthy brain
Seena Mathew is Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. As a neurobiologist, she studies the effects of swimming on the brain, which are many! You can read her article in The Conversation (Swimming gives your brain a boost – but scientists don’t know yet why it’s better than other aerobic activities) or tune in here! Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: The brain cells strike back - Lofi Factory Stuck in my brain - Atch Planetary alignment - Dr Brain Sapphire - Tobu Photo from StockSnap
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There is more to ocean swimming than just swimming in the ocean. In The Pod, we chat about all aspects of ocean swimming, from how we can keep the oceans swimmable, to oceans on other planets.
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