Need some encouragement to take the plunge?

Guinness World Record holder, open-water swimmer and adventurer Nuala Moore is speaking on Leeside as part of this year’s Cork Harbour Festival.

The self-coached endurance swimmer, who just published her memoirs ‘Limitless‘, to great acclaim, will present Limitless-Swimming Past Boundaries: A Journey Through the World’s Oceans on Saturday, June 8th, 2024 at Nano Nagle Place, Cork.

Nuala holds two Guinness World Records for extreme cold-water swimming – the first for her part in the first and only international relay team to swim from Russia to the USA across the Bering Strait, and the second for her pioneering cold-water swim in the notorious Drake Passage, the body of water between South America’s Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

She is the first swimmer in the world to swim from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, the Drake Passage, as well as the first woman in the world to swim south of remote Cape Horn. Nuala is also the first Irish swimmer and the third woman in the world to complete a 1000m in zero-degree ice in 2013 (wearing just swimming togs). She then set about creating standards and procedures on risk for both ice and marathon swimming.

“For Nuala life was always a balance of success and failure, of achievement and value and mostly loving the moments where we are on the edge of our own possible.” say the organisers.

“Owning our swagger is our greatest challenge and gift to ourselves. She is engaging, inspirational, motivational, and mostly unassuming – a normal person fighting the daily fight to be the best version of herself.”

Tickets are expected to sell out fast for this one so nab one now (€10) here.