Downstream

was presumably, no.
Gautier continued to take
part in swimming
entertainments and then in
1892 decided to try the
Channel. But first he swam
from Folkestone to Dover
with his hands and feet
chained, though some reports
said he was taken out of the
water about a mile from
Dover. Soon after he dived 71
feet from a platform on
Folkestone Pier with ‘his