Here's an interesting thread on Penny Palfrey's swim from evmo's Marathon Swimmers site:
www.marathonswimmers.org/.../penny-palfrey-cuba-to-florida
Scroll down to bottom to find the post (with map) on Gulf Stream dividing into two currents, one being the Yucatan current that may have worked against completion of the swim.
80 miles completed (out of ca. 107) before encountering a current pushing wayward from course too strongly to proceed against.
(Other posts on the thread have the FB page and Twitter, for those who want to go back and review the swim as it unfolded.)
Here's an interesting thread on Penny Palfrey's swim from evmo's Marathon Swimmers site:
www.marathonswimmers.org/.../penny-palfrey-cuba-to-florida
Scroll down to bottom to find the post (with map) on Gulf Stream dividing into two currents, one being the Yucatan current that may have worked against completion of the swim.
80 miles completed (out of ca. 107) before encountering a current pushing wayward from course too strongly to proceed against.
(Other posts on the thread have the FB page and Twitter, for those who want to go back and review the swim as it unfolded.)
