Conclusion Quote by Robin Furth

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

“Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.”

— Jennifer Echols

I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own aquatic adventures,…

— Alice Roberts

This is for Steve Remember ur coming over here to swim!!! :) :)

— Maria

“We suffer the threat of breathing in water; we fight the nightmares that would drown us. And just as we feel the deceptive joy…

— Lynne Hugo

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or…

— Sophie Hannah

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own…

— Esther Williams

“Don't limit yourself to drop of water, come drown in the deepness of heart and become the ocean.”

— Harsh Ranga Neo

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep…

— Thomas Carlyle

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“Stop drowning your dreams by jumping into waters that you are unable to swim in.”

— Loren Weisman

“He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.”

— A.S. Byatt