Google's news has a story about a 9 year boy who did the Alcatraz swim in SF Bay....
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In 1997 when 19 Texas Masters Swimmers went to San Francisco to swim both events....all 19 swam sans wet suit. Matt could not/would not hear of wearing a wet suit when we swam them together the following year in 98. Heck, I even got grief from some of my fellow Master Swimmers for allowing Matt to swim these events without a wet suit and the water was a bit colder in 98 then 97.
As things turned out he wasn't in the Bay long enought for the water to have had a real bad result. He got a bit of the shivers when he got out after 49 minutes on the Golden Gate Bridge Swim, but some hot drinks and a warm blanket fixed it pretty fast.
In 1997 when 19 Texas Masters Swimmers went to San Francisco to swim both events....all 19 swam sans wet suit. Matt could not/would not hear of wearing a wet suit when we swam them together the following year in 98. Heck, I even got grief from some of my fellow Master Swimmers for allowing Matt to swim these events without a wet suit and the water was a bit colder in 98 then 97.
As things turned out he wasn't in the Bay long enought for the water to have had a real bad result. He got a bit of the shivers when he got out after 49 minutes on the Golden Gate Bridge Swim, but some hot drinks and a warm blanket fixed it pretty fast.
