I just swam a mile in the ocean this morning...it seems I need to work on getting used to doing freestyle in open water myself! I started out doing freestyle but soon switched to breaststroke because it makes sighting so much easier and makes it easier to avoid looking straight down at the weeds etc. moving on the bottom and getting dizzy. It took me 40 minutes to make the swim...my goal was to swim to a jetty about 1.5 miles down the beach but I got out early b/c I was feeling pretty cold (let's just say this area isn't known for warm water...where I got in it wasn't bad but then I hit a significantly colder stretch and started to feel it). I'm sure freestyle would have been faster; maybe next time I'll try sticking with it the whole way and see how it goes.