#21

Is the danger and exhilaration of it not part of the ‘buzz’ though? I personally wouldn’t be put off jumping into a lake or off a cliff into open water by any of this. I mean, you could just as easily have a heart attack going on a rollercoaster.

I’m not saying it doesn’t invariably happen, but it’s never, ever happened to me or any of the people I know, and we used to drink loads of cans and go pier jumping/jumping off waterfalls into rivers/lake swimming every weekend from spring onwards, even when it was really cold. Many of us still do well into our thirties, albeit not as often.

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#22

Yes, all 21 of them will get extremely cold.

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#23

Just go for a swim lad. It’s a public pool where I assume other people will be around anyways. You could get hit by a bus on the way there.

#24

Big fan of outdoor swimming. Swim in the sea quite often (living near the coast helps) and when we were up in Scotland the other year did a fair bit of wild swimming in lochs. Wild swimming in rivers is great fun too (better than the sea really, no salt and more sense of exploration). Lots of doom and gloom in this thread but it’s great fun and, yeah it’s chilly up start with but as long as you keep moving you’re fine. It’s exhilarating, great stuff, go for it.

#25

All the reasons I do it and the women I known is a sense of freedom and connection with nature, nothing to do with danger but I’m sure there are people who go for that.

Yep, it’s rare, just making everyone aware of how to avoid it. My friend’s teenage son died from it last year.

#26

Think I can avoid all the bus routes getting there if I plan it out properly

#27

I hate swimming

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#28

All single women in Brighton are into open air/ sea swimming now

Every single one of them

#29

There is a sauna place on the beach here now - you can sauna and then run over the pebbles into the sea. Reckon I’d bottle it

#30

It’s just not drowning, isn’t it. Pro tip: avoid drowning by not getting into the water in the first place.

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#31

No more bath selfies from bamnan then!

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#32

It’s funny because it’s true. I think there’s an element of it being something that an ex raver (the type who would naturally gravitate to Brighton) would get into in later life as a form of “cleansing their soul”

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#33

It does look fun once you’ve got used to a bit but that takes a bit too long for me :cold_face:

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#34

The thing with sea swimming is that if you go a couple times of week you don’t notice the sea temperature changing with the seasons so much. The prospect of going into the sea now, which it’s single degrees, is horrific, but if someone said to you that it’s only one degree cooler than when you went in last week that wouldn’t be such a bad proposition. I used to go sea swimming a fair bit in my thirties (before it was cool, yeah?).

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#35

I also worked in a heated outdoor pool and when anyone came in wearing a wetsuit I would cringe because they’d inevitably stay in for 6 hours / complain when you evacuate the pool due to thunder and lightning

#36

The rubber insulates them against the lightning, I assume?

#37

Your body does get physically conditioned to getting in cold water too, to the point that you can almost eliminate any risk of cold water shock. Once every week/fortnight is usually enough to keep it up.

#38

There’s a weird subculture war in dublin between crusty boomer types and younger (mostly women) who have more recently gotten into sea swimming. All seems a bit odd.

I did see loads of the latter out along the coast at the weekend though. :+1:

:woman_shrugging:

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#39

Your feet are normally uncovered though so surely it would just travel right through from your head to toes?

#40

I just read something that said that having a nice hot shower or bath undoes all that resistance build up.

I do like a nice hot shower :thinking: