Ocean swimming... and connecting with blue spaces
Description
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
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...
Published 08/09/24
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...
Published 02/27/24