Wild Swimming with Paul Asmuth
At The Cove Eleuthera, the ocean isn’t something you look at, it’s something you enter.
Join internationally acclaimed marathon swimmer and Olympic Coach Paul Asmuth for an exclusive open-water swimming residency available only at The Cove from June 25-28 and November 5-8. Guided swims, personal coaching, ocean safety mastery and storytelling come together in an immersive program that blends adventure, wellness and raw Atlantic beauty.
Paul Asmuth is a seven-time World Professional Marathon Swimming Champion and former English Channel world record holder. He served as Open Water National Team Leader for USA Swimming and coached athletes at the Olympic Games in Beijing and London.
Over the course of his career, Paul has swum in waters across the globe — including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Italy, México, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, and the United States — experiencing everything from tropical currents to historic channels and vast inland seas.
He is a member of both the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, and author of Marathon Swimming: The Sport of the Soul.
But what makes swimming with Paul extraordinary isn’t only his accolades, but his reverence for the water. Decades in the open ocean have shaped his belief that swimming is not simply sport. It is presence. It is rhythm. It is conversation with something larger than yourself.
Our immersive Wild Swimming residency invites guests of all levels to experience Eleuthera’s crystalline coastline in a way few ever do: guided, intentional and deeply personal.
About the Program
- This program is best-suited to adults who can comfortably swim 1,500 meters in 30 minutes.
- Coaching will be personalized to the individual, from strong lap-swimmers wanting to explore open water (wild) swimming for the first time to competitive swimmers and triathletes looking to refine their times or techniques.
- Each swimmer will enjoy three hours of coaching, one hour per day. Each session will be limited to a maximum of two swimmers with similar strengths and goals.
- Coaching sessions will be held in one of the resort’s private coves using a six-circuit course as well as along the coastline from the resort to Gregory Town, an approximate 3,700 meter swim.
- Free-flowing conversations with the coach and fellow swimmers over the course of the three-day program are welcomed and encouraged.
- Non-swimming guests of swimmers are invited to participate in all program activities besides the one-hour daily coaching sessions.
Continue your connection to the sea with our Bahamas Blue Mind Offer: a curated Eleuthera escape designed to immerse you in water, in every form.
Enjoy a three-night stay in a Beachfront King Room or Junior Suite, a private picnic on our Floating Sea Lounge, an oceanscape paint set to create from your patio and an in-room amenity with local seashell chocolates, bath salts and a Bahamian My Ocean Candle.
Paired with Paul’s open-water residency, the Blue Mind experience becomes a deeper immersion into Eleuthera’s elemental calm.