Real Sports on HBO this month is featuring a fellow named Lewis Gordon Pugh, who has done long distance swims in a variety of water temps. If you get a chance this story will leave you shaking your head, and possibly shivering as well.
Here's a link to the promo:
www.hbo.com/.../episode.109.s3.html
Former Member
Just one to go for me, should have diverted to the Antartic when I was in Australia in 1956. All the others were not too cold but I did find that Lake Ontario can be colder than the Artic Ocean.
A couple of years ago I read Lynne Cox's book, Swimming to Antarctica . The last swim in the book was 1.2 mile in sub-freezing water (below 0/32) in Antarctica. But the really scary swim in that book was the one in the Nile where she had to dodge some floating animal carcasses.
See http://www.lynnecox.org/.
