What oceans have you swum in? I swam at Long Beach, vancouver island (brrrr) and

[applegrove]

Nova Scotia (Lawrencetown and Hurtles), Prince Edward Island (Brackly Beach), Margarite Island (Playa el Aqua) off the coast of venezuela, Florida (Palm Beach and Clearwater) and the Mediterranean (Nice). Warmest waters in Canada are in PEI (warm waters come from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence River and PEI has warmer water than any beach north of South Carolina).

[struggle4progress]

1. My least favorite ocean swim was one summer in Maine -- actually physically painful

-- cold cold cold

[applegrove]

2. Yeah. It is cold in Nova Scotia on the East coast where I've been but much colder

in the Bay of Fundy where they have those huge tides.

[XemaSab]

3. Atlantic and GoM

Pacific inadvertantly.

[charlie and algernon]

6. "inadvertently"???

did you fall out of a boat or off a pier? Or did you take a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ended up at the wrong ocean? :rofl:

[femmocrat]

4. Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico.

I was surprised how cold the Pacific was!

[Denninmi]

5. Only the Atlantic.

At Charleston, SC in July in the early 1970s. It was extremely hot and muggy weather, so I remember the surf as being quite refreshing. I was only 7 at the time, so my perceptions of it are dim.

[charlie and algernon]

7. Just the Atlantic

Through New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

[hobbit709]

8. Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Black Sea, North Sea

[seaglass]

9. I have been in 2 oceans and 3 seas - Atlantic, Pacific, Med, Carib and Gulf of Mexico.

I always thought there were only 5 oceans and 7 seas but I guess things have changed since I was in school because I never heard of the Southern Ocean I was taught it was the Antartic Ocean.

OK some facts just need to stay the way they were - no changing ocean names and no subtracting planets :-)

[kick-ass-bob]

15. Apparently there are now only 4 oceans.

My 5th grader has a test today, and the study guide said 4 oceans: Arctic, Indian, Atlantic and Pacific.

[seaglass]

16. They should change it to just one - easier to remember and why not.? n/t

[hunter]

10. The west coast of Ireland...

... the water was cold and I was crazy.

Other than that, the Pacific and Atlantic many places, the Mediterranean, the gulf of California, the gulf of Mexico.

Someday I'd like to visit the Indian Ocean. I hate flying, so maybe I can sail there.

[LynneSin]

11. I've done the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

Atlantic Ocean - Swam in it from the states of New York (long island), New Jersey(Wildwood, Sea Isle, Atlantic City, Ashbury Park, Cape May and a few other points of interest), Delaware (Rehobeth, Bethany, Lewes and Broadkill - that's the point where the Delaware River drains into the Ocean), Maryland (Ocean City Maryland), Virginia (Virginia Beach, Wallops Island) , North Carolina (Kitty Hawk), Georgia (Sapelo Island) and Florida (Ft Lauderdale).

Pacific Ocean - Swam in it from Mexico (Acapulco), Costa Rica (Tamorindo) and California (San Diego on Coronado Island)

As for the Gulf of Mexico - Waded in there from Florida (St Petersburg area) and Mexico (Cancun)

And since the Great Lakes are major bodies of water - I've seen it from these states (never swam in it)
Lake Erie (Cleveland)
Lake Onterio (Toronto, Niagara). A beautiful drive is the Queen Elizabeth Way that connects Toronto to Niagara - part of it rolls right around the lake including a nice bridge that goes over a snippet of it.
Lake Michigan (Chicago)

[bikebloke]

12. My dips.

Atlantic off North Carolina.
Gulf of Mexico in Mexico and Florida.
Waded in the North Sea in Holland.
Pacific in Australia and New Zealand.
Tasman Sea in New Zealand.
Red Sea and Dead Sea in Israel.
Mediterranean in Greece.
Adriatic Sea in Corfu.
Puget Sound in Seattle.

And for a bonus point, I swam and drifted down the Rhine River in Basle, Switzerland.

[KamaAina]

13. The big two -- Atlantic (includes Gulf) and Pacific.

Of course, much of the Pacific swimming has been off Hawai'i.

[pink-o]

14. you can swim at Ocean Beach or Baker Beach about 2 days outta the year here

Every once in awhile, SF gets up to 90 degrees (but never in the summer) and I head out for the water. Otherwise, even the surfers don't go in without wetsuits. Freezing!

I've traveled a lot, done the Pacific, Atlantic, North Sea, English Channel, Adriatic, Indian, South Pacific Caribbean, Black Sea---but my favorite place in the world is the Med. I just love the history around that region, and the beaches are beautiful in Sicily, Malta, Greece, Croatia (okay, that's the Adriatic) the Amalfi coast et al. Nothing has the energy of the Med)

[MorningGlow]

17. Newport Beach, Laguna Beach...

Acacpulco, Puerto Escondido, Myrtle Beach, (well, just wading), Provincetown.

I really liked the Mexican beaches, Puerto Escondido especially, but the, um, hidden contents of the water gave me some very powerful Montezuma's Revenge. Yep, kiddies, ya can get it from water other than ice cubes...

On edit: Extra points for the correct use of "swum". :applause: