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A happy elderly woman smiling in an outdoor swimming pool

"And there's three more great grandies on the way,"
Joy said.
A large family group stands for a photo.

A woman regaled in mayoral gown stands at pool entrance

"I walk with a bit of difficulty now, but I still walk up and down those stairs six times a day,"
she said.

An underwater shot of a 96 yr old woman in blue bathers swimming freestyle

A mother and daughter arm in arm at a public indoor pool

"I never thought that life was going to be easy, because it wasn't."
An elderly man, seen from below, swimming laps in a pool.

A fit older man in Speedos stands on a diving block in front of an indoor swimming pool.

"If you don't keep going, you might as well dig a hole, and I'm too old to dig a hole, so I've gotta keep going."
A smiling elderly man holding onto the edge of a swimming pool.

An underwater photo of a 96 year-old woman swimming freestyle in a pool

"It just feels so free,"
she said.

People stand on cliffs watching a swimmer dive into the water at Surrey Dive.

"You'd go down so deep when you dive, that all the water down the bottom is black, because there's no light getting through. Then as you come up, it gets lighter, it goes to bottle green, like old bottles, it gets a bit lighter, and then you break out into the daylight, like that."

An elderly woman in a pose of ecstatic elation with her arms flung high

A smiling woman stands in stairwell of hospital

An underwater photo of a 96 year-old woman swimming freestyle in a pool

An elderly woman hangs on deep end of the pool smiling

"I like discovering things, and you're not going to discover things unless you adventure out."
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