Downstream
Competitors, both women and men, can be seen swimming against the current, although the water looks eerily ...
done, whether Victorian races or the modern Chiswick swim. Peter was having a pint with friends one day on the ...
mile and a half of mudflats again. Peter thought he could. An experienced open-water swimmer ‘with a fair fe ...
shipping lanes. While Peter swims competitively, and started Masters swimming in 1994, he says he prefers jus ...
‘I assumed I would have to go to the PLA, and because of my sailing experience I knew the shipping channel. ...
for a sponsored swim to raise funds to convert HMS Wilton, due to replace Bembridge as the headquarters of the ...
wind strength exceeds Force 3 or visibility is below 4 miles’. Unlike Derham and Tammy before him, Peter wo ...
skipper would be Stuart Silcock, a qualified Offshore Yachtmaster, and Peter would be supported on board by ...
planned date the Yacht/Swimmer will ensure that they do not present any hazard to shipping in the channel. ...
Peter Rae’s swim across the estuary in 2003 started as a bet; could he swim from Essex to Kent and back within one tide? Here he ...
provided with isotonic drinks at regular intervals. Finally, he explained he was forty- nine years old, o ...
aside from his Channel swim in 1985 in just over eleven hours, he’d also made an eight-hour double c ...
enough to swim in’. After one hour and fifty minutes he was standing on the beach at All Hallows, havi ...
maybe the dredger didn’t heed it. It wasn’t dangerous but there are a huge amount of ships and with the new ...
yacht club came out to say “hi”, but I was only there for five minutes.’ Things then turned tough and ...
twenty-five minutes, covering eleven miles and with 3 feet of tide still available, he landed on the east ...
was not too cold, and it’s not big seas, though it can get choppy, and I was going with the tide.’ But he says De ...
every day . . . I just need to pick a nice day.’ Another famed swimmer to arrive in Southend was ...
“well done” rang out’. Lewis’ main memory of his final leg of the Thames from the barrier to Southend, h ...
like Lewis, he swam through lots of jelly fish: ‘it felt like I swam through them for an entire day ...
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