I think it would be distracting too....I swim a lot but never just straight swimming...for instance yesterdays workout; one of the main sets was
5(3x100) on a fast pace time desc each 100 within the set. The total distace was 1500 meters for the whole set, but the intensity was kept pretty high.
I think if I wore an Ipod it would have been hard to concentrate on the task at hand. But that my just be me.
