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The Surf Live Saving National Championships 2019 will take place at Branksome Dene Chine beach between Saturday 17th August and Saturday 24th August 2019. Branksome Chine Surf Life Saving Club started in April 1990 and up until the RNLI took over beach lifeguarding duties on behalf of the council, patrolled every Saturday afternoon, all day …
Congratulations to everyone for completing the Seahorse swim for this year. You can find the full results here – http://app.lap.io/event/2019-seahorse-swim/results
The Dorset Jelly Dodgers are setting off tonight (Monday 17th June 2019) to swim the channel. Departing at 11.30 pm from Dover on sea leopard. Tracker Details – https://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/pilots/sea-leopard UPDATE Dear All, Please accept our huge congratulations on an amazing swim yesterday! The water looked beautiful. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and are feeling OK today after …
As you may have heard, the council want to redevelop the area at Shore Rd which includes our changing rooms. Maybe we’re being too cynical but it seemed apparent that they were trying to sneak this through hoping that nobody would notice. But we did notice and realised it would have a major effect on the future of …
Club member Jon Tribbeck recently took part in the 21km Vidösternsimmeet in Southern Sweden. A mysterious land of pickled herrings, cinnamon buns and crazy golf. Read his account on his Cold Wet Blog.
Cold water and sunshine greeted 25 swimmers at our first club meet of 2018. There was a demand for a slightly earlier start to the season this year, so as an experiment, the club’s committee decided to bring the start of the season forward to 3rd April. It’s been a relatively cold winter for sea …
