Goa, April 13 -- The experience of doing something for the first time can be quite disconcerting. It can be a life changing experience. For 18 swimmers, last Sunday it was an experience that left them happy and over the moon. They did something for the very first time. They all swam a distance they had never done before.

Indrajeet Khadilkar, one of the coaches behind this venture said it was quite an experience for the swimmers involved. The swimmers had to swim from Hawaii Beach to Bambolim. This was a distance of 5.5 kilometres. All the swimmers were doing it for the first time. He said they had never done the distance or anything like this before. They started swimming at 7 o'clock in the morning and everyone was done by 10 am. A kaya...