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The Blue Room’s Sabra Lane joins the Yabbies, a women’s river swimming group united by friendship, health and nature, born during Melbourne’s lockdowns.
The Weedy Seadragons ocean swimming group meets weekly at Kingston Beach, its founder Harold Gatenby talks with Sabra Lane about ocean swimming, camaraderie and addiction.

This is family. Meet the Weedy Seadragons of Kingston Beach, where swimmers become buddies, form life-long friendships and many feel this tribe is family. The Blue Room speaks with some

The Blue Room’s Sabra Lane interviews marathon swimmer Joanne Norman on becoming the first Australian woman to complete the Oceans Seven Challenge. What makes Joanne’s story truly remarkable is that

The Blue Room host Sabra Lane interviews them both to talk about how the song came about, what swimming means to them and about their careers, life, Tongan heritage and

Australian author Tim Winton joins the Blue Room podcast host Sabra Lane for a long chat about his obsession with the ocean. Tim is admired the world-over for his salt

Join The Blue Room for an inspiring chat with Tasmanian swimmer Brett Stephenson as he recounts his journey to complete South Africa’s renowned Freedom Swim. Brett shares what motivated him

Mark Sowerby is The Blue Room’s guest in this episode. Over a decade he swims the Ocean Seven, seven channels of water on five continents. The first channel (The English

The Blue Room visits the 2026 Devil of a Swim, relocated this year from Bicheno to Coles Bay. Also visiting the tourist hotspot, the Coledale Oysters from NSW. The Oysters

It’s a question pod host Sabra Lane is often asked; how to you become confident to swim in the open water? The Blue Room joins the Kingston Beach Surf Life