BRRRRRR!!!!! And from what I understand, no wetsuit! No wonder he took a 45 min. shower afterward!
I wonder if he and Lynne Cox know each other. Her book, "Swimming to Antarctica," describes her adventures swimming in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, as well as many other forbidding places. And like Pugh, she has the ability to stay warm under conditions most of us couldn't stand.
I just saw this clip on Fox News Ticker. My first thought was: he is touched in the head (LOL). But seriously, pretty amazing a human body can exist in such waters.