Watch | Want to learn how to swim in the sea? Chennai’s open water swimming instructors answer
Minutes before getting dropped off mid-ocean at Kovalam (Covelong) for our first open water swimming lesson, Murthy Megavan, the founder of Murthy Surf School, tells me that I am to strap on my life jacket and wait at a spot 100 metres from the shore, marked only by random bobbing waves. “Just relax and talk…