Downstream

for $2.5 million – in case the
journey killed him. ‘I had
read a lot about Pugh’s swim,
and as I researched further I
got even more excited when I
realised the environmental
success story that the Thames
presented. It was a dead river,
now there were 320 types of
aquatic life. I even heard on
the BBC there were little
seahorses swimming around
London.’
Charlie was then thirty-