According to the organization, the fish is a so-called “black seadevil” known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean’s surface.

Building on her work so far through the swim school, Ms Butler said she wanted to offer more open water swimming teaching and train up more black tutors. "I want to see this grow, I think now the ...

But there’s a reason that Black communities in America, for example, don’t have as much pool-participation as white ones. For years, swimming was seen as a no-go zone for many Black people ...

But it’s the benefits to her self-esteem that writer Nyima Jobe values the most as a Black swimmer ... my absence from the pool was making me more lethargic and lazy. Swimming felt like a ...