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), Justine journeyed across Sydney at the end of covid, enjoying our newfound freedoms, to explore one of Sydney's most unappreciated yet sublime features.

Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:

• Upper Harbour Highway - Sci-Clone
• Blue Harbour - EuLiLa
• Pools - Grizzly Beatz
• Sapphire - Tobu

Photo by me! (Bilgola)

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 for six minutes and is a qualified free-diving instructor and coach.

Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:

• Let Me Breathe (Wardub) - Rhekluse
• Breathe - INOSSI
• Breathe - LiQWYD
• hold your breath - ikkunn
• Free Dive - Cymatish
• Sapphire - Tobu

Photo from Michaela on instagram

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 ability to move through water. Listen in to hear how you could tweak your stroke for quicker times, and why we still may see many more world records in the pool (and ocean). He has also conducted extremely interesting research on the benefits (or not) of stretching.

Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:

• Biomechanics - Bit Funk & Jason Gaffner
• Biomechanics - I.D.L.E
• Biomechanics - Greyscale Music
• Sapphire - Tobu

Photo created by me using Bing AI Image Creator