Swimming in Schull with triathlon coach Sarah McKnight

02/13/24 • 20 min

From A to Sea – The Southern Star Sea Swimming Podcast

SARAH McKnight is a Londoner who moved to Schull after meeting a Cork man.

She's a swimming teacher, an open water swimming coach and a level one triathlon coach.

McKnight started her swim teaching career on board cruise ships, and from there moved to the Cayman Islands, but every Sunday morning she takes a group for a swim off the slipway at the Fastnet Marine Centre in Schull.

Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin joined them recently, but before that had a great chat with McKnight in the town's Harbour Hotel.

This episode was produced and presented by Siobhán Cronin, with editing by Dylan Mangan.

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SARAH McKnight is a Londoner who moved to Schull after meeting a Cork man.

She's a swimming teacher, an open water swimming coach and a level one triathlon coach.

Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin joined them recently, but before that had a great chat with McKnight in the town's Harbour Hotel.

This episode was produced and presented by Siobhán Cronin, with editing by Dylan Mangan.

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Nuala Moore on swimming in the world's most dangerous waters

NUALA Moore is a force to be reckoned with – and the sea knows that!

Nuala’s earliest memory is of jumping off her father’s fishing boat in Dingle and swimming back to shore. Since then, she’s swum in some of the coldest, remotest and most dangerous waters in the world, from the Bering Strait to the Drake Passage.

After years of marathon swimming, Nuala struggled to balance sacrifice and achievement. Her work–life balance, coupled with caring for her father, forced a change in her pathway. She turned to ice swimming.

Nuala believes that everyone is capable of greatness, whatever shape that might take.

Her incredible memoir talks about her initial dive into the world of marathons and triathlons and how she eventually came back to her one true love – the ocean.

Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin travelled to Dingle to meet Nuala inside her beautiful little linen shop, where they talked about Nuala’s drive to constantly challenging herself, from scuba diving to swimming, and the world’s fascination with cold water.

This episode was produced and presented by Siobhán Cronin, with editing by Dylan Mangan.

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Underwater cameraman Ken O'Sullivan on making documentaries in the sea

KEN O’Sullivan is an Irish underwater cinematographer, film maker, author, diver and swimmer.

As well as completing documentary series' for RTÉ, Ken was cameraman on BBC’s Atlantic – Wildest Ocean on Earth series, a CBC Canada documentary on jellyfish and ITV’s Britain’s Whales and Britain’s Sharks documentary.

His series on the North Atlantic, The Dark Ocean was hugely popular when it was shown on RTE last year. It revealed never-before-filmed behaviours of our stunning marine creatures, with an original soundtrack performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Ken has also made a ten-minute movie on West Cork elite swimmer Steve Redmond.

He recently spoke to Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin from his home in Lahinch, Co Clare, not far from where he grew up.

This episode was produced and presented by Siobhán Cronin, with editing by Dylan Mangan. Listen below.

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