Interview with former top swimmer Melissa Ingram

Cindy McQuade chooses the latter and finds a hot spot on the outskirts of Tauranga.

Luis Villanueva preaches a simple message and it's one he hopes will resonate clearly with New Zealand's leading swimmers.

Michael Phelps is planning a comeback to swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics, according to a well-placed US source.

Free entry is being blamed for overcrowding so bad that disappointed swimmers are being turned away from Auckland pools.

New Zealand's best open water swimmers are philosophical after conceding the recent State New Zealand Ocean Swim series to Australians, but still have much to look forward to in 2013.

Two Australians have taken out the State Ocean Swim Series with contrasting victories in the final round on Auckland's North Shore.

The King of the Bays ocean swim marks a decade on the water and today more than 1000 people are taking part.

Danielle Wright meets young ocean swimmers competing in the 10th King of the Bays event at Takapuna Beach.

Danielle Wright takes a sneak peek under water in a glass-bottom boat at New Zealand's first marine reserve, at Leigh.

Brett Atkinson explores the charms of Niue's coral atoll.

New national swimming bosses believe the key athletes have produced encouraging performances at the State New Zealand Open Championships that finished in Auckland last night.

Liz Light opts for a long walk and a cold swim on a hot day.

Swimmer Lauren Boyle has been scaling the sport's heights of late.

It's reaching the business end of the State Ocean Swim Series.

A first-time father who drowned while snorkelling south of Melbourne on Saturday will be buried on the same day that his baby daughter is christened.

Swimmers were told to get out of the water at Muriwai Beach near Auckland today after a report of a shark.