# Shark Bait Swimming in Australia, with Tony Forbes and Col Ritchie

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Published: 2025-05-30T18:28:53+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stanley-ulijaszek/episodes/Shark-Bait-Swimming-in-Australia--with-Tony-Forbes-and-Col-Ritchie-e33j8ta
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Tony Forbes and Col Ritchie are regulars at the annual Pierto Pub ocean swim in Lorne, Victoria. This can be a fierce race, when swimming can be a contact sport. Notwithstanding this, this fearsome duo amount nearly a century and a half of life experience between them, and swimming enough Pier toPubs leads to the honour of receiving a shark bait award, two or more if you live long enough and/or you don’t get taken by a shark. Tony and Col take it seriously enough to train regularly in their local pool. Which is where I jointhem, one crisp Australian spring morning.

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