“When the tide’s at full force there’s no chance you can swim against it”

Men’s Health, November 2025. PDF here. Nigel Walley, 61, has been swimming in the Thames since he was a boy and now regularly tackles the iconic river’s tidal section. He explains what it’s like to be in the water as the tide surges. As told to Jessica Furseth . We went for an hour and aContinue reading ““When the tide’s at full force there’s no chance you can swim against it””