“I’m really good at back (stroke) — it was the first stroke I learned,” said Cornwall Sea Lion Owen Murray, who had just ...

In the 20 years of my adult book discussion group at the library, one title stands out for the sheer delight it occasioned us all – Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje’s outrageous Sri Lankan ...

Three Victoria-based long-distance swimmers plan a 50-kilometre open-water swim in the frigid Great Bear Sea along the northern coast of B.C. Jill Yoneda, 41, Susan Simmons, 51, and Dale Robinson, 41, ...

The recent near-death experience of YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia in the open seas of Goa has underscored the importance of exercising caution while swimming. On Christmas Day, Allahbadia recounted a ...

Selkies are mysterious seal women in Northern Scottish mythology, who sometimes shed their sealskins and take on human form. They are also older women in Victoria, who shock their friends and families ...

It’s a previously unknown side effect of global warming but it’s simply a case of putting a couple of known factors together for the first time. We know Arctic sea-ice is retreating, and we know polar ...

Have you ever seen people going into the sea over winter and wondered why on earth anyone would voluntarily do that?

Most visitors to coastal areas hesitate to swim in the water as they fear being swept away by the waves. To remove the fear, the Panambur Beach Tourism Development Project (PBTDP) launched a programme ...

New research suggests that polar bears are being forced to swim more often as climate change reduces Arctic sea ice. University of Alberta bear biologist Andrew Derocher says the forced swims are ...

It's 1980, and 14-year-old Amrith lives with his aunt and uncle in Sri Lanka. His life is good, and he tries not to think about his past, before his mother died. But when his cousins unexpectedly ...