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Iceberger Don Warner has recently published a new book about the Brighton Icebergers, called Beyond The Tip Tales of the Icebergers of Brighton.

The book is 230 pages long, with 228 photos and chronicles the swimming histories of 152 Iceberger swimmers. In addition, the book also includes numerous full colour photos of certain Iceberger events, some very 'cool' and very 'cold' places to swim and other information pertinent to our hardy winter swimming group.

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