He is a swim coach here at the Southampton swim team, and he is in Madrid today.

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Our swim team community here at Southampton provides a wonderful example of that attitude.

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Here, I swim through a canyon filled with green water of such violent luminosity that it's like breaststroking through a radioactive Midori cocktail.

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From here, either enjoy a swim in Lake Galilee (from one of the many pebbled beaches or pay to use the facilities of Kibbutz Ginosar, 2km east around the lake).

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Here, the object is to swim through thick, filthy water along two 60-yard lengths of a flooded peat bog trench, using only the paddling power of two feet and a snorkel to breathe.

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"There's no getting around the fact that we're in an ocean here where some dangerous species of shark swim, " she said at the news conference.

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