Swim the atlantic...

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Former Member — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:33:13 GMT

More clear repudiation of the whole fraud/story/exaggeration: sports.yahoo.com/.../The-great-Atlantic-Ocean-swimming-hoax

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SLOmmafan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:12:09 GMT

Wow, there was some very poor reporting done on this whole story. As is mentioned, 250 miles is impressive over 25 days - but it is not the same as swimming the whole Atlantic.

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Former Member — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:12:43 GMT

From now on in the USMS "Go The Distance" event I'm going to include the miles I drove to and from the pool in my swimming totals. OK but you have to be wearing only your speedo, cap and goggles...

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Former Member — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:11:35 GMT

Yikes... Cream puff this has you written all over it! www.comcast.net/.../ Wow! My kind of story!!! Flippergirl

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ViveBene — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:12:36 GMT

Some of the comments to the Rocky Mountain News story are pretty funny: "I've been to the moon and back - 30,000 feet at a time." Looks like Jennifer Figge sort of section swam some Atlantic Ocean water. Maybe she'll go back over time and do the rest of it. It's good to have a goal, though! :)

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knelson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:08:11 GMT

From now on in the USMS "Go The Distance" event I'm going to include the miles I drove to and from the pool in my swimming totals.

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Kurt Dickson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:02:38 GMT

A 25 day swimming holiday in January. A home in Aspen. I need to get a better sponsor/agent.:)

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aquageek — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:26:10 GMT

This should really be described as a person who took a 25 day eco tour of the Atlantic and did some swimming along the way. This in no way should be described as "swimming the Atlantic." She didn't even swim for 5 of the days.

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knelson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:10:18 GMT

With GPS they could just reposition the boat to the point where she exited the water the previous day. What I think is strange is that she would choose to do this during the winter. Maybe that's when the currents are strongest? Still 84 miles per day is hard to believe.

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Former Member — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:14:56 GMT

"84 miles per day is hard to believe" Maybe she took a short cut? Different journalist, different view. www.rockymountainnews.com/.../

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Mookie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:26:41 GMT

I wouldn't think the boat goes anywhere at night. If they took advantage of the gulf stream, she could get up to a three knot boost from the the current. If she was in the water for 15 hours a day, that's 45 miles a day from the current. Just a guess.

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Former Member — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:13:16 GMT

"84 miles per day is hard to believe" Maybe she took a short cut?

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orca1946 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:49:44 GMT

My no think so! Now I would be impressed if it was all fly!

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Mookie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:43:25 GMT

Currents and winds favorable, the strongest, and most reliable in the winter. Water temps still in the 70s or 80s. The direction of those '30' ft waves would have been pushing her. Hurricanes run June through November, and will seriously mess up your day if you are out there on the ocean.

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Former Member — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:02:33 GMT

Time (or mileage) exagertion, it is still an impressive swim!

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Former Member — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:23:47 GMT

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: ???

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Patrick W. Brundage — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:11:17 GMT

How far did the boat go each night when she rested? This is a cool concept, but is it real? can you even anchor a boat in the middle of the Atlantic?