Jul 13 2008
Swim stats today 2 hours 10 dudes in drysuits diving for shipwrecks in the harbor Well, we did yet another training swim. Got the call from our pilot (Dave Whyte) last night that we weren’t going to be relaying the channel, so we decided to acclimatize swim again. Since we couldn’t go we did 2 [...]
Jul 12 2008
Met at Dover Harbor today for the regular weekend CS&PF Swim. There were heaps of swimmers (at least 50) there at 9AM. Adam and I swam for 1 hour in the harbor just to loosen up. We were joined by our families, and after the swim the kids decided to stick their feet in the [...]
Jul 11 2008
Hi guys. I mentioned that I might go for a sundown swim last night. I did, and it was awesome! It turned out pretty cool too because they decided to launch The newest member of the Carnival Cruise Line during my swim. The water didn’t taste like champagne, but there certainly was a lot of [...]
Jul 10 2008
Swim stats today 1.5 hours Serious chop, especially on the east side of the harbor 200 gulls, zero fishies Hello from Dover! Another nice swim today. Might head out for a night swim close to sun-down. Due to the relatively high latitude of Dover (and England itself) the sun rises earlier and sets later than [...]
Jul 09 2008
Swim stats today 2 hour swim Rainy blustering weather 6 seagulls 3 wet members of our support team standing on the rocky beach We did our second acclimitization swim today. The swim went well for both of us. We felt the difference now that the sun was hidden behind clouds, but it nevertheless went well. [...]
Jul 08 2008
Swim stats today 1 hour Gorgeous sunny weather 90 sea gulls We did our first acclimitization swim in the Dover Bay today. It went well, and was short. It was a gorgeous weather day and based on the weather projections we won’t be seeing much sun in future days — so we really enjoyed feeling [...]
Adam, Neal, & Amy
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