Bound To The Sea: Dive Into Wild Waters

DIVE INTO WILD WATERS WITH NORMAN TODD

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WILD SPIRITS MADE BY THE SEA

Norman has spent his whole life in the water one way or another. He grew up in the fishing town of Ullapool, where oilskins are always in vogue, and followed in a long tradition of West Highlanders who earn their keep fishing the wild waters for shrimp.

BOUND

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SEA

Loch Assynt is one of his best-loved spots, an isolated location half an hour’s drive from Ullapool. It’s surrounded with sandstone mountains that seem alive and cast long shadows on the water, which ripples softly like wrinkled leather, and reflects the auburn clouds at dawn.

As a wild swimmer Norman knows the waters around Ullapool better than most. He’s completed some seemingly impossible open-water challenges including swimming 23 kilometres (14 miles) from Anlochan, near Achiltibuie, to Ullapool.

The longest challenge? A brutal 39-kilometre (24-mile) non-stop swim in the North Minch. But it was after a film of Norman swimming in frozen Loch Glascarnoch went viral that his notoriety as one of the UK’s most extreme athletes went global.

Every time is a new experience and with each stroke Norman comes closer to nature. The unparalleled joy he feels of being in the water is enough to stave off the Scottish elements one more time.

WHEN

I FEEL

SKIN

START TO

CRYSTALLISE

KNOW

IT'S

TIME

GET OUT

WILD SPIRITS MADE BY THE SEA

Being in the water is a big part of how Norman spends his downtime. He never misses a swim, even when it’s far below freezing and the lochs are covered in a layer of ice. Sometimes Norman leaves the neoprene swimsuit behind and enters the water in only a pair of swimming trunks.

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I'VE

NEVER

THAT

FELT

THE

WAS

COLD

EXTREME

ENEMY

FEARED

SOMETHING

BOUND TO THE SEA

hand dives for scallops

DIVE INTO WILD WATERS

SOMETHING

IT FEELS NATURAL TO BE

ADJUSTING TO THE TIDES

AND CURRENTS AND SHARING THE EXPERIENCE

SHARING THE EXPERIENCE

WITH ALL SORTS OF MARINE

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