About Us
Chris Billingham. Swimmer Ltd. Waterproof MP3 Players & Cases.
The company ‘Swimmer Limited’ was founded in 2006 by Chris Billingham. Chris has been a keen surfer since 1978 and won the UK students surf contest whilst studying at Exeter University in 1990.
Chris who swims to keep fit for surfing enjoyed using the SwiMP3 waterproof MP3 player so much during his swimming sessions in 2005 that he decided to distribute the product.
Chris says: “I really enjoyed going swimming in the pool and listening to music underwater. It was a joyful experience hearing “America’s Ventura Highway’ kick in as I pushed off the side of the pool for my first length surrounded by the shimmering blue light reflecting through the water.
I would swim for about ten tracks (about half an hour) without really noticing the time passing, my mind absorbed by the music, relaxed and oblivious to everything else.
I realised that swimming was no longer boring and began to look forward to my time gliding underwater listening to my favourite songs.
I became surf fit faster as the music makes interval training easier by allowing you to match the speed of your swim stroke to the tempo of the songs.
I loved adrenaline rush I would get when I began to swim faster to my louder rock tracks with a quicker beat like ACDC’s – ‘You shook me all night long’ and the Killers ‘All theses things that I have done’.”
To date Swimmer Ltd has served thousands of satisfied customers. We try our best to support our customers with any problems they encounter using our products and guarantee a refund or a replacement of any goods that are not fit for purpose.
Our customers have included english channel swimmers, synchronized swimmers, recreational swimmers and triatheletes.
Our company motto is “If your ship doesn’t come in swim out to it”