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In this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Brent Bythell.
Brent is a disbled swimmer from the top of the south island of New Zealand. We first met Brent at the St Bathans openwater ice swimming event in 2023, and later at Alexandra ice pool champs in 2024.
We talk to him about why he started cold water immersion and the road to ice swimming. (he hasn't had a hot shower in 8 years!).
But that's not all. Brent also is a world record holder and has a place in the Guinness book of world records for doing freedive swims of 62m, with no fins and no kicking. Very impressive.

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In this episore Duncan & Jim talk to Peter Plavec.

Peter has done numerous ice swims with a number of ice kilometers and an ice mile. He gives us lots of nuggets about how he approaches cold water swimming and we talk about what it is like in Europe.

He is very active on Instragram so if you would like to see what he is up to, here's a link.
Peter Plavec on Instagram

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In this episode Duncan & Jim speak to Ruth.
Ruth grew up in Spain, then spent some time in Chile before settling in New Zealand.
Ruthy (as most peope refer to her as) loves the pool, but took up openwater swimming in NZ with the Kohi Kippers.
Ruthy has swum Lake Taupo and the Apolima Strait, both big swims with their own challenges.
A passionate swimmer she even talked Duncan to a standstill!