Here's a comment from 2002: 
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/z...02174140231894
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		| At lvl 30 I am maxed at 150 on swimming. It is almost as fast as walking or running. | 
	
 That's pretty much all I've got, not a lot of direct references to any cap but plenty of mentions about how one should try to work on it to survive various places.