Sep 21 2008
Archive for the tag 'video'
Jul 17 2008
Day 23 – Channel Day Moments
We swam the channel yesterday. Today is a planned day to rest, recoop and reenergize. We still have 200 more miles to bike to get to Paris — which will start day after tomorrow. Some stats about our swim: Dover, UK to Calais, France 14 hours 23 minutes 21 miles Water temp 60F In terms [...]
Jul 15 2008
Day 21 – 8th training swim in Dover
Got word again from our pilot that tomorrow is our Channel Swim Day. We will start at 6AM from English sand and swim till we hit sand (i.e. France). It will take us 14 hours or so. Wish us luck. The below picture is a view near our sandy starting point in Dover. The videos [...]
Jul 13 2008
Day 19 – 6th training swim in Dover
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 10 2008
Day 16 – 3rd training swim in Dover
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 [...]
