Our Safety Record

We come from a swimming and lifeguarding background, here at Sea Swim Cornwall. For us, good lifeguarding is all about being pro-active and preventing people from getting in a situation where they need to be assisted or rescued. This is the approach we adopt with our swimming holidays and activities. On occasion we will do the odd ‘rough’ swim but it will be with a group of swimmers that we know and we’re always very transparent about the conditions you’ll be swimming in…particularly if they’re going to be less than ideal.

We do offer set location swims but these do come with the risk of being cancelled or re-arranged, as if the conditions are not safe we will cancel. The majority of our swims (and the swims that we publish on our social media) are arranged at short-notice, having looked at the short-range forecast. They are selected based on the quality and beauty of the swim itself but primarily they’re based on the conditions. For both your safety and enjoyment.

Since 2015 (at the time of writing) we've never had to rescue a customer. In that time we've assisted 2 swimmers over approx 200-300m of slightly choppy water...before they continued swimming. Off the top of my head we've had 1 swimmers since 2015 injure themselves (rolled their ankle on dry land).

We totally appreciate that some people get a little anxious at the thought of sea swimming, especially if they’ve never swum any kind of distance in the sea. We can assure you that all of our swims are thoroughly risk assessed and selection is based on the appropriate conditions.