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deemed a danger, and being a maritime lawyer if I got arrested it wouldn’t look good for either side.’ L ...
experience that at all. It was fast, though, down to Chelsea it was super-fast, I was flying. I doubt the ...
more sympathy with the PLA. In 2010 American adventurer Charlie Wittmack also wanted to swim through the ...
legal issues and when I went to meet the PLA I knew there was no law that was prohibiting me from swimming ...
the proper training and preparation. Most things I do like Everest, others aren’t going to do; it’s no ...
at Lambeth, the BBC was there and we tried to use the coverage to discourage people from the central London s ...
wasn’t yet in effect, and in a sense it created an opportunity for me to be the last person to swim the entire ...
good; any regulations that protect life and health are good and important. And, after all, there are other chal ...
all,’ he recalls, ‘they said people would emulate me. Every year there are fatalities, people drown. It’s ...
was doing it but, even then, I was hit by rowers. People are not expecting to see you there. The PLA’s job is ...
nowhere to stop, the charity was concerned about having a media event, and at the Houses of Parliament you had a ...
might copy me, and actually I haven’t met anyone who’s said, “that looked nice”. They’re more likely to say, ...
River is dangerous and should not be undertaken’. The PLA argued that not only had swimming in central London no ...
travel network in London and freight services keep thousands of lorries off London’s roads’. It was at pains to ...
Lock to Putney and from Crossness to the North Sea there are no explicit requirements, bar people using their ...
‘Swimming in the Thames is akin to rambling on the M25. A hazardous undertaking.’ A 2012 by-law prevents people from swimming be ...
furiously to the by-law. On internet forums some said it was a result of Trenton Oldfield’s disruption of th ...
another wondered whether the licence issued was waterproof so that it could be produced when asked for. The ...
we meet at a coffee shop near Tower Pier, along with Steve Rushbrook, PLA deputy harbour master for the ti ...
river – either dead or rescued – and 34 ‘possible persons’. There have been 23 swimmers in difficultie ...
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