article_snippet: In the 1950s and 1960s, with the White Bay Power Station at the White Bay Power Station pomp, local swimmers happened across a novel and secret way to keep up local swimmers training in the cold winter months.
article_snippet: The water, which would be used to bring the temperatures of the boilers down, would then run off through the underground canal and out into the nearby bay - where John Devitt, a 1960 Olympic gold medallist, was one of the first to recognise the White Bay Power Station benefits.
article_snippet: Peering into the past and the secret of Olympic success.
article_snippet: The canal flushing out the water used to cool the systems down would flow into the bay immediately outside the factory, which became a training pool for gold medal winners like John Devitt in the 1960s .
highlights_snippet: Olympic swimmers in the 50s trained in the heated water flushed out of the station canal into the nearby bay during winter months .