woman swims atlantic

[shirt]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7877222.stm

looks a tad cold in that pic though!

[pokethepope]

[cynic] How do/will they verify it? She could have hung onto the cage, or the support make progess at night. [/cynic]

Fair play though, massive challende and achievement.

Edited by pokethepope on Monday 9th February 12:56

[Landlord]

shirt said:

looks a tad cold in that pic though!

Bah! I was expecting to see monumentally erect nipples.

[R360]

Landlord said:

shirt said:

looks a tad cold in that pic though!

Bah! I was expecting to see monumentally erect nipples.

+1

[brum]

Rubbish.
Did it in stints - come on love - its one go or not at all.
Plus she didn't really swim the atlantic - which as well all know is Plymouth - New York, What she has done is paddled around in some tropical water.

[Tycho]

She swam 3/4 of the Atlantic. The starting point was miles off the African coast.


That said, I couldn't do it and it is still a massive achievement.

[crofty1984]

"Lady swims over 2100miles" Fantastic, and a phenomenal achievement.
It starts to get a little ropey when it's "Lady swims the Atlantic! Well, she starts halfway there, and does it in bits, and someone may or may not have done it 10 years ago, and there was a cage, etc, etc."

[GTIR]

Not bad for a 56yo.

[Cara Van Man]

Landlord said:

shirt said:

looks a tad cold in that pic though!

Bah! I was expecting to see monumentally erect nipples.

<not disappointed>

[sleep envy]

brum said:

Rubbish.
Did it in stints - come on love - its one go or not at all.
Plus she didn't really swim the atlantic - which as well all know is Plymouth - New York, What she has done is paddled around in some tropical water.

in a cage, so she couldn't exactly drown

what a waste of internets on the BBC site

[PhantomHumper]

"woman can swim"

[V8mate]

GTIR said:

Not bad for a 56yo.

Edited by V8mate on Monday 9th February 13:27

[JuniorD]

GTIR said:

Not bad for a 56yo.

...with leprosy

[svm]

PhantomHumper said:

"woman can swim"

Oh, I thought you said "drive".

As you were...

[anonymous-user]

Did anyone see this link?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3272357.stm

[Neil_H]

el stovey said:

Did anyone see this link?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3272357.stm

"Friday, 14 November, 2003"

Surely he must have finished by now? If not, maybe someone should call....someone.

[V8mate]

Neil_H said:

el stovey said:

Did anyone see this link?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3272357.stm

"Friday, 14 November, 2003"

Surely he must have finished by now? If not, maybe someone should call....someone.

Coastguard!

[BoRED S2upid]

As if. Spent 8 hours in the water before returning to her support boat for a nice kip while the boat drove on for 10 hours.

David Blane could have done that without sleeping doing backstroke or some kind of stroke!.

[speedy_thrills]

I know how she must feel, I did 12 laps of the pool once and was so exhausted walking to the chipshop nearly killed me.

[barney123]

speedy_thrills said:

I know how she must feel, I did 12 laps of the pool once and was so exhausted walking to the chipshop nearly killed me.

Did you run around it then ?