Locals Warn Tourists: Don’t Swim in La Seine – But Is It True?

ParisianDiaries

18/07/2025

They said no one should swim in the Seine… but I did. 🏊‍♂️🇫🇷
For the first time in history, the Seine River at Bassin Bercy is open for swimming — and I had to find out: Is it actually safe?

From slipping into the locker room, sunscreen drama, and that first jump into the water… this felt more like Brazil’s Fortaleza than Paris! But is the water really clean? Is it deep? Or just Instagram-worthy from far away?

I tested it all — so you don’t have to. 🌊😬

⚠️ Don’t watch if you’re afraid of what lies beneath…

#SwimInSeine #ParisRevealed #HiddenParis #BassinBercy #UrbanSwim #TravelVlog #SeineChallenge #IsItSafe

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00:00So we are the first vlogger from Paris who are doing this swimming vlog

00:23Hey guys, welcome back for another vlog video here from the best city in the world

00:28Paris street life for over century swimming in the Seine was forbidden was illegal and was unthinkable

00:38Today we are going to swim for the first time in Seine after centuries

00:44Anyone have done that before we are the first Parisian youtuber who will do a vlog in swimming of la Seine

00:50We will share all this experience with you. I'm so excited because today it's not a video content

00:57It's not a swim content. It's a story making. We will film the history first time after decades or after century

01:05That we are swimming in la Seine

01:07I'm so excited and i'm heading now to la Seine to show you all this experience

01:14We are crossing the bridge of Paris the view is impressive

01:21So so beautiful Paris under the sun is something very special

01:26I really like walking in the summer in Paris

01:30It's the best period to visit Paris

01:33We have the Parisian beach where we can swim so it's perfect this city

01:38Have everything many people were skeptical to swim in la Seine they said it's polluted

01:44Do not take the risk

01:45Many people didn't encourage the mayor of Paris didn't believe that we can swim in the in the Seine

01:52During the olympic the city spanned more than 2.5 I think million euro

01:58To make the sand clean and they played

02:01All the water games in the sand during the olympic to 2024 it was amazing experience

02:08One year later they said it will be open for the public for that we are going so it's really cool that the politician

02:15Fulfill his word fulfill his promise. I hope we can swim so so so cool

02:20And yeah, that's it many opportunities

02:23Maybe they will do some cruise. Maybe they will do some diving. I don't know

02:28It's open a lot of possibility to have the water clean in which you can swim and I'm so excited to see the future

02:35It is already swimming. I think

02:38Yeah, we almost arrived at the site. Excuse me today. I'm using a new setup

02:44So I'm using the answer 360 first time I use it because the osmo pocket 3

02:49I can't use it in the water. So I took my insta 360 the problem of this camera

02:55I don't have the mic with me, so I have to scream more

02:59But they said that the internal mic is good. So don't know what will happen later

03:04So they said it's open for today until 8 p.m. Which is quite late

03:10Let's go

03:12Maybe let's do a tour before

03:15See what we can do

03:17So many people for today

03:19It's really hot more than 30 degrees and also it's such a sunday so many people

03:26Went to jump in last and I wasn't expecting a lot of people like that since many people said they will not swim in

03:32I said after they changed their mind because they saw some photos and video

03:37In the social media, so they said yeah, maybe it's worth it to go swimming last time

03:42Yeah, it's like a beach vibe here really many people see things and they think

03:49Let's wait for our turn in the clock room

03:54And so it's the clock room you have here where you can put your clothes

03:59Very big actually, it's quite big now I need to remove everything so I will turn off the camera

04:06Okay, I changed my clothes. I'm ready to swim but

04:12No, I will not swim. Let's go and check a place to sit a bit

04:16Yeah, there is a place there

04:20Yeah, let's put the Brazil flag. We took it from Rio de Janeiro guys

04:25No, I took it from Fortaleza

04:28Yeah, so I come back to the old camera Osmo Pocket 3. I took a place here because

04:33Sebastien will join me Sebastien is a Parisian that yeah many times told me that he will not

04:40Go to swim in La Seine and finally I convinced the team so we will swim both of us in La Seine

04:46It will be cool cool cool cool cool

04:48I'm so happy that he's joining me and we will do this first experience together

04:54So yeah, I will wait for him because I have the phone and all that and once we

04:59We meet after I will put everything in the clock room

05:02Like I said, I keep my word in the video of Ratatouille Paris 2

05:06We went and we see a survey in which they say will you swim in La Seine and many people said no all the balls were no

05:13We are the only ball who said yes and I did a promise for you in that moment that

05:18If the Seine is open for public we will go and swim there and I will do a vlog about it

05:23And yeah, I'm here today to fulfill that promise for you guys and to show you all this experience

05:29We are not doing a simple swimming vlog

05:33We are here to write history and we are so happy to memorize this moment with you through our blogs

05:39I searched in all internet all YouTube I didn't find any youtuber talking about swimming in La Seine

05:46So we are the first vlogger from Paris who are doing this swimming vlog and we will share it with you guys

05:52A little bit of history La Seine was open in the 80th I think

05:58Many people were swimming in La Seine normally but after they closed it due to the industrial revolution

06:04The Seine became so polluted so they forbidden the swimming in La Seine

06:08In the Olympic the city announced that they will clean the Seine to make it swimmable again

06:15They spent 2.5 million euros to clean the Seine and the Olympic they fulfilled their promise

06:22The mayor of Paris swimming in La Seine last year also all the water competition have been done in La Seine

06:28It was amazing

06:30One year later 2025 it's open for public and we are here

06:34Yeah the sun is too hot here I need to put my sunscreen or I will burn today

06:41I'm doing my best to protect my arms and my legs also

06:47Three days ago this site was closer to the heavy rain at the beginning of the week so many people were

06:54Spectacled they said oh it's not clean they closed it so they are not sure that it's clean or not

07:01But guys it's always like that when it's raining you can't swim the day after even in beach

07:07We have been to several beautiful beaches one of them is in Fortaleza and the day after the rain the

07:13beach was totally dark so you can't even swim or you swim but it's too dirty and even in Rambla in Uruguay

07:21when we went there it was totally dark and yeah nobody can swim in a weather where it's raining or windy

07:28So Seine is not an exception stop criticizing and enjoy the good vibe

07:43It was too hot there I couldn't stay a long time so I changed to place here where there is shade at least

07:51The site is really secured here I was surprised to see that a lot of security you can't enter like

07:58that and go up like that so it's really cool you feel safe for now I didn't see any problem really good

08:06vibe good vibe I will put this to avoid that the water enter inside of my ear like that in clubs

08:14I put also air plugs but in water I put those one because they remove the water from the ear

08:21oh it's work it's working impressive first time I see a free sunscreen like that in this city

08:30really really cool from Paris that they have done that see who's here hello you're recording yeah

08:38I don't have my uh I will not swim I will not but I will record but she will

08:44no no no you don't you can change you can change but I don't have

08:50I'm so disappointed I wanted to swim with Seine okay I'm ready let's go to swim first time we are going

08:59to swim in La Seine so excited to share that with you guys they said first you have to take

09:05this floaty this floaty because I think it's too deep there is risk of growing

09:19yeah I'm ready let's jump in the water yeah let's jump in the water

09:24first time we swim in La Seine so excited

09:36I did it I did it only for you they said to me I don't have the right to do it

09:47it's your first dive and last one

09:51but it's deep I can't touch the floor

09:54I can't see your body under the water so it's really cool and let's do a shot under the water

10:14so it's the experience of swimming in La Seine guys I think it's for you

10:27so it's really really cool I really like the water the sun the weather

10:32oh you feel like you are in brazil but you are in very amazing amazing experience

10:39okay I'm dry now so the experience really really cool the water is cool it's amazing the vibe a lot

10:46of security in this place it's so clean you have everything you can put your stock in the cloth room

10:53I suggest you guys when you come to Paris to try this experience try to swim in Paris it's really

11:00amazing and also I suggest all the Parisians that are skeptical about that to come and try this experience

11:07and after say to us in the comment section what do you think about it it's done for this vlog I hope

11:12you like it maybe next time we do another vlog with Seb in which he will he will swim still have

11:18doubts about the quality of the water I don't know if you'll get sick in two days or three days I

11:23will tell you guys after until then enjoy all what the city is offering Paris streetline

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