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call and take a look at the GPS. As we were standing there, over the course of just a few minutes, ...
we thought the shore was. So we got in touch with the rescue boat service and within an hour or so they ...
Thames,’ says Wouter Van Staden. ‘I always had the idea that if you can see something then you can swim to i ...
Reading, and ‘for around six months I tried to find information if I could swim in the Thames, but I only ...
figured I needed to speak to the PLA but in the end I thought there was a chance they would say no, so I though ...
entirely willing but everyone else I had asked couldn’t do it. We did it in the early morning to avoid the pl ...
notified the coastguard that there was a swimmer in the estuary, although I had already passed the channel by ...
we reached land. They offered to quicken the process and so we put the kayak on their boat and they gave us ...
and asked what safety precautions we had and took our names and numbers and address, which my wife was not happ ...
sandbank off Thorpe Bay, part of a temporary harbour intended to be used in the Normandy landings fol ...
how many of us there are and we tell them once we’ve arrived back. I’d definitely like to swim the est ...
day swim from Cricklade to Radcot Lock. ‘I’d like to swim to Southend. If you time it with the ti ...
experienced and ambitious swimmers, others can be reckless, as Richard Sanders, pier and foreshore supervisor, knows ...
opening doors. That’s when I realise it feels as if we’re on a boat; even his white uniform gives him the ...
memories are of his dad taking him to the indoor baths on Sundays. ‘There were bad news stories when I gr ...
method is described as ‘ship to shore’ but is otherwise known as ‘shit to shore’. As evidence of its cleanlin ...
waterway it used to be.’ He compares the estuary to places like the Maldives, ‘which is seen as paradise ...
have told me about swimming in the 1950s.’ There was also a sea-fed dolphin pool and boating lake east o ...
Southend has a long history of Thames bathing; in the 1920s people enjoyed open-air swimming baths complete with slides. When ...
with what turns out to be great understatement; ‘people swim to the shore against the tide and they swear ...
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