Congrats to Penny Palfrey, her coaches, and support crew on her incredible swim!!! I was following it last night online!:applaud::bow: Steve Mullatones who taught our OW Swim Clinic at SwimFest last month was right there with her as well!
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Look, I'm not a big fan of sharks but I take exception to the term "unassisted" if someone had to be there to fend off (and in this case kill) several sharks in order for her to finish the swim. I can justify the first kill as being a life saver, maybe even the 2nd. After that, having to kill these sharks so that you can swim for a record comes across as more than just a little bit self-centered... It may be a world record but seems like a pretty morally questionable way to attain such heights. Not a fan.
I'll go further and saying killing any shark, especially one as beautiful as an oceanic whitetip, so that they can complete a swim is complete BS, absent an imminent threat to life. And, if an oceanic white tip wanted to attack here, there would be little left of her to continue a swim. But I don't know the details, other than to read they were threatening her.
Isn't open water swimming a challenge of the natural elements? Temps, swell, chop, current, and yes, animals? If it wasn't safe due to temps or current, she would have been plucked from the water. If it wasn't safe due to sharks, she should have been plucked from the water.
I've dived with thousands of sharks, seeing one, let alone three, killed simply for one person's vanity sickens me.
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Look, I'm not a big fan of sharks but I take exception to the term "unassisted" if someone had to be there to fend off (and in this case kill) several sharks in order for her to finish the swim. I can justify the first kill as being a life saver, maybe even the 2nd. After that, having to kill these sharks so that you can swim for a record comes across as more than just a little bit self-centered... It may be a world record but seems like a pretty morally questionable way to attain such heights. Not a fan.
I'll go further and saying killing any shark, especially one as beautiful as an oceanic whitetip, so that they can complete a swim is complete BS, absent an imminent threat to life. And, if an oceanic white tip wanted to attack here, there would be little left of her to continue a swim. But I don't know the details, other than to read they were threatening her.
Isn't open water swimming a challenge of the natural elements? Temps, swell, chop, current, and yes, animals? If it wasn't safe due to temps or current, she would have been plucked from the water. If it wasn't safe due to sharks, she should have been plucked from the water.
I've dived with thousands of sharks, seeing one, let alone three, killed simply for one person's vanity sickens me.
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