About The Forth Swimmer
The Forth Swimmer is an independent English language magazine about swimming in Fife and the Firth of Forth. It is written for families and adults on this coast: parents of young swimmers, adults learning to swim, club parents, and open water swimmers. The site sells nothing and takes no position on any club or organisation.
What the site covers
The magazine is organised into four sections:
- Learn to Swim covers water confidence, teaching children, the four strokes and the whole learn to swim journey.
- Clubs and Competition explains Scottish club swimming, the squad pathway, licensed galas and how to read swim times.
- Pools and Open Water gathers the pools of Fife, the history of the Burntisland bathing pool, sea swimming in the Forth and open water safety.
- Swimming Life looks at swimming for fitness, masters swimming for adults, kit and the cost of a swimming habit.
How the articles are written
The Forth Swimmer editorial team writes every article in the third person, using public sources named in the article. Clubs, governing bodies, leisure trusts, pools and every person are described from the outside, never as we. Where the site refers to a place or an organisation, it does so as a magazine would: factually, and without pretending to be that organisation.
The site does not invent facts. Dates, figures and historical details are taken from public records and are described as they stand in those sources. Where a figure is uncertain, the article says so rather than stating it precisely. Nothing here replaces qualified instruction, a pool's own rules, or local safety advice, and the safety pages say so plainly.
Why this domain
This domain once carried the website of a local swimming club. That club continues elsewhere, under its own name, and it is not connected with this magazine. The Forth Swimmer is an independent publication on the public subject that the domain has always been about: swimming on this stretch of the Fife coast. The history of swimming in Burntisland, including the club founded in 1886 and the open air bathing pool of 1936, is told factually in the history article.
Corrections and contact
If you spot an error, or want to suggest a public source, you can write to the team through the contact page. Corrections with a source are welcome and are handled quickly.