Downstream

it was a good idea to prove it.
I don’t remember people
saying the Thames was dirty,
but I would have ignored
them anyway. It tasted
slightly muddy, it wasn’t too
bad, although when I got to
Gravesend it became brackish
and salty.’
Kevin started at three
o’clock on the morning of 14
June 1980. In pouring rain he
swam three miles against the
last of the incoming tide, then