Random Interesting Story...

[Mike_S]

I was watching a TV programme about someone swimming the channel... and then I started wondering if anyone has swam from ireland to scotland or vice verse...

found this good story...

https://loneswimmer.com/2012/10/24/tom-blower-and-the-first-north-channel-swim/

[Johnny Robbo]

Cool story, Mike!

[Groundy]

Good find Mike, interesting...

Alex

[Oldrottenhead]

great read.

[kenny mac]

Wow that was a great story.
That was some tough dude.

[ODH]

Real Boy's Own stuff.  Fascinating.

[CaptainJimbo]

Great story, and most of all I really dug the authors unashamed use of excessive hyperbole.
Nonetheless, what a bloody acheivement! It would have been as cold as the end of an eskimo's tool out there, no wonder hardly anyone has ever attampted it.

I particularly liked the line about the poor Greek swimmer who had a crack at it, "Jason Zirganos, died after an unsuccessful try in 1959 despite the efforts of a doctor who cut him open with a borrowed penknife to massage his heart".