Something doesn't add up.
...she's shown posing for a picture after her arrival to Chacachacare Island, in Trinidad, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Figge, of Aspen, Colorado, is the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean, after leaving the Cape Verde Islands off Africa on Jan. 12, swimming roughly 2,100 miles (3,380 kilometers) to arrive in Trinidad.
She swam 2,100 miles in 25 days (January 12 - February 5, inclusive). That's 84 miles per day. At Erik Vendt's pace of roughly 15 minutes per mile, that's 21 hours per day of constant swimming.
Even if she was aided by current, the article said that she "...(battled) waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds..." That would imply that there were times when she was making much less progress.
??? :dunno: ???
Something doesn't add up.
...she's shown posing for a picture after her arrival to Chacachacare Island, in Trinidad, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Figge, of Aspen, Colorado, is the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean, after leaving the Cape Verde Islands off Africa on Jan. 12, swimming roughly 2,100 miles (3,380 kilometers) to arrive in Trinidad.
She swam 2,100 miles in 25 days (January 12 - February 5, inclusive). That's 84 miles per day. At Erik Vendt's pace of roughly 15 minutes per mile, that's 21 hours per day of constant swimming.
Even if she was aided by current, the article said that she "...(battled) waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds..." That would imply that there were times when she was making much less progress.
??? :dunno: ???
