aside from his Channel swim
in 1985 in just over eleven
hours, he’d also made an
eight-hour double crossing of
Lake Geneva.
He got the go-ahead and at
12.20 p.m. on 14 September
he started next to the
Westcliff-on-Sea casino, the
air temperature was 18
degrees, the sea a ‘positively
balmy’ 16 degrees. He set off
to cross the estuary ‘in two
feet of water, but it was just
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