Downstream

salty which was a surprise,
but both of us were fine.’
Matthew got plenty of press
coverage, mainly because he
wrote about his swim in The
Times, and also because of
people’s response. He began
his article with, ‘First, don’t
try this at home. It could have
ended in disaster. It was
ignorant and it was
dangerous. But it was not
impetuous.’ Today he says, ‘I
knew people would condemn