Downstream

Competitors, both
women and men, can be seen
swimming against the
current, although the water
looks eerily calm. In modern
times there is only one person
who has officially swum
across the estuary and that is
Peter Rae who, in 2003,
swam from Southend to All
Hallows in Kent and then
back to Leigh. The idea
started as a bet, just as many
other Thames swims have