“You can’t really make money off the sea. When there has been research, it hasn’t been funded by multi-million dollar grants because there is no back end for these companies.”
We all know people who proselytise about the benefits of sea swimming but Chris Ballard went further. In his new book The Plunge, he ended up researching the world of ice swimming , then taking the research a step further, becoming an ice swimmer himself. He talks to Dion Fanning about the science and the joy, as well as the pain.
