Downstream

enough to swim in’. After one
hour and fifty minutes he was
standing on the beach at All
Hallows, having avoided a
large tanker in the main
shipping channel. ‘A dredger
was coming down,’ he
remembers, ‘ships had been
warned there was a swim in
progress, it was not a close
shave but the dredger had to
be contacted by phone. The
PLA had given notice about
my swim to shipping but