This is the 4th post in our series focused on how to plan outdoor/wild swimming (whatever you want to call it) expeditions. In this article we’ll be looking at assessing risks, dangers and diving into the unknown with “The Leap of Faith”…

How do you mentally prepare to swim across the two biggest and most powerful maelstroms in the world? It's a question I repeatedly asked myself in the run-up to our Into the Maelstrom expedition…