Immersion: A Pocket Guide to Sea Bathing and Winter Swimming

This little guide to sea bathing shares insights gained through encounters, readings, personal experiences, and a profound connection with the sea.
It extends an invitation to joyfully embrace sea bathing or swimming, demystifying the practice, unveiling its countless virtues, and explaining in simple terms the physiological mechanisms behind it.
Sea bathing is a communion with nature, embodying a philosophy, and ultimately a lifestyle that blends the aquatic with the marine. It stands as the ultimate ticket to physical health, mental well-being, and overall wellness.
JÉRÔME CLOCHARD had the privilege of living on the island of Houat in Brittany for five years, a period that initiated his passionate relationship with the ocean. After several years of dedicated sailing in the Gulf of Morbihan, he worked as a diver and combat swimmer in the military for over a decade-an extraordinary experience of immersion and connection with the ocean.
Enthusiastic about open sea swimming, he later started a small, friendly winter swimming group on the Fouras peninsula in Charente-Maritime: the "Pelagos Swimming Social Club." Today, the turquoise waters of Finistère's wild beaches welcome him daily as he practices sea bathing with ever-renewed joy.