"Plan Your Swim, Swim Your Plan" - Guinness World Record Holder Nuala Moore's Safety Advice for Sea Swimmers

20th March 2025

Lorna Siggins

Chilean Navy commander Adan Otaiza Caro with Nuala Moore and the RNLI flag on Cape Horn island after signing off the co-ordinates for her first in world swim off Cape Horn from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 2018

Nuala Moore, from a Kerry fishing family, is a Guinness world record holder and medal winner in marathon and ice swimming.

Among her many achievements is participation in a relay swim around Ireland, she has swum in the Bering Straits - and she is the world’s first swimmer to navigate Cape Horn, crossing the meridian from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

Guinness world record holder Nuala Moore

A former member of Dingle Coast Guard, she has financed all her expeditions, and she has raised over 90,000 for charities, including over 1,000 euro for the RNLI at a recent talk hosted by Cumann Seoltóireachta an Spidéil in Galway.

Her autobiography, Limitless, is dedicated to her late sister, Mary, and is published by Gill Books at 20 euro.

After her Galway talk, Nuala spoke to RTÉ Radio 1 Countrywide, and an extended version of that interview for Wavelengths is below.

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Published in Wavelength Podcast, Sea Swim, Water Safety

Published in Wavelength Podcast

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Lorna Siggins

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Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award

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