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Hosted by Marc West · sports · EN
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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Signup to Generate a PitchThere 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.
SWIMMING WITH THE POD is hosted by Marc West. The show has published 58 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Ocean swimming... and ocean health" (24 March 2025, 55 minutes), "Ocean swimming... in Sydney's ocean pools" (30 November 2024, 23 minutes), and "Ocean swimming... and free diving" (9 August 2024, 50 minutes).
SWIMMING WITH THE POD publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 43 minutes across 58 episodes.
Booking probability for SWIMMING WITH THE POD is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. SWIMMING WITH THE POD requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. SWIMMING WITH THE POD's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for SWIMMING WITH THE POD are Fitness, Golf & Recreation and Environmental Agencies. SWIMMING WITH THE POD has a sports audience.
Marc West hosts SWIMMING WITH THE POD, a sports podcast with 58 episodes published.
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Episode #58
<p>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...
Episode #57
<p>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)...
Episode #56
<p>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...
Episode #55
<p>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...
<p>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...
<p>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...
Episode #52
<p>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...
Episode #51
<p>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...
Episode #50
<p>Episode 50! Swimmer's ear (acute otitis externa) is an outer ear infection that many swimmers will have had at some point in their lives. However, it turns out that you don't have to go swimming to get swimmer's ear...
Episode #49
<p>Rolf Hut is a hydrological scientist from Delft University of Technology. Or perhaps he's better described as MacGyver scientist, attacking problems from different and interesting angles. One such problem was the...
Episode #48
<p>Andy Donaldson is a world-recorder holding open-water swimmer. In 2023, he is attempting to swim the Oceans Seven in one year, and is making a pretty good fist of it, having already swum the English Channel (in a...
Episode #47
<p>Pedro Ordenes is an Alcatraz legend, having swum the famous route over 1000 times!! Pedro runs Water World Swim that organizes many swims in San Francisco Bay, California and across the world. I was lucky enough to...
<p>Peta Bradley is a member of the Australian ice swimming team that recently competed at the World Ice Swimming Championships in France. She competed in the 1000m, 500m, and 50m butterfly, bringing home a bronze medal...
Episode #45
<p>Lynne Cox is arguably the most accomplished ocean swimmer of all time. She set the record for the English Channel in 1972, was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait in New Zealand in 1975, famously swam between the...
Episode #44
<p>Professor Peter Ralph is Executive Director of the Climate Change Cluster in the Faculty of Science at UTS, and is partnering with Australian surf brand Piping Hot to develop textiles made from seaweed for surfwear...
Episode #43
<p>Eli Ball is training to swim the English Channel... butterfly. Yes, you read that correctly. Butterfly. He is an exceptionally accomplished butterflying ocean swimmer, having completed a plethora of marathon ocean...
Episode #42
<p>Lauren Tischendorf is the first woman to swim solo around Lord Howe Island - 32.2 km of sharks, currents, 25 knot winds and 2.5 metre swell, finishing in 13 hours 50 minutes and 26 seconds. She has also filmed a...
Episode #41
<p>Brendan Cullen is training to swim the English channel, but what makes his journey exceptional is that he is a sheep farmer from Kars Station, east of Broken Hill in NSW, and is about 350 km from the nearest...
Episode #40
<p>Peter Hancock has now swum well over 1000 consecutive days, most days in Dumaresq Dam in Armidale, central NSW. Often the temperature is down near freezing. But this is not the first time Pete has conquered an...
Episode #39
<p>Jaimee Rogers hosts the Big Sports Breakfast program on Sky Sports Radio, is a national level swimmer in the 200m breaststroke, and is now tackling the English Channel. She is raising money with Gotcha4life to...
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Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics, Hansard Society
Professor of Law and Justice, Australian Human Rights Institute
Vice Chancellors Senior Research Fellow, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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