In the short film "Chasing the Sublime", director Amanda Bluglass tells the story of a friendship, born in the cold northern waters of the desire for adventure and freedom. 

The "swimming twins" Kate Rew and Kari Furre, creators of "The Outdoor Swimming Society" tell with deep honesty the intimate meaning of swimming in cold water. 

"There is always this component of 'unknown' in swimming, of discomfort and risk. 

The fear of the cold, of the depth, of not being sufficiently trained. 

But that immersion in the common silence is like a homecoming. 

Everything slips away. 

Kate and Kari have been friends since they met swimming in a river and immediately realised that their love of adventure would bind them together forever. 

They swam for years in the cold waters of Scotland and northern Europe, studying maps, tides, routes, trying to prevent risk but accepting its unpredictability. 

"It's getting in the water that we find difficult, not being in the water. 

That step forward on shore can seem like a heroic moment when we stand on the shore, when we are dry and regret what lies ahead. 

But we love the intensity 

In deep water, life is always in your hands." 

Kate and Kari will continue to search the cold waters for discomfort, fear of the cold and the unknown, and the courage to face them. 

But at the same time they will continue to experience what it feels like in the greatest freedom of life through the simplest of choices:  

Drown or swim? 

Float or sink? 

So why do we take that step into the unknown, into the cold? 

Kate and Kari after so many adventures know the deep reason that drives us to dive: 

"To transform the ordinary into the extraordinary in an instant".