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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Like others, these "official responses" don't make me feel any better. In fact, it sounds like Steve M. is saying "of the millions of sharks killed per year, what is three more when she did a swim like that"? At least that's how I am reading it. I understand Steve has some conflicting loyalties, but I would hope that we don't allow behavior like this to continue solely to promote this sport (which frankly, is fringe, and always will be). I think as others the issue of what is acceptable minimizing of risk is acceptable should be an open topic for discussion.
And the husband: "We, and many other swimmers, are more conservation minded than most people and do not condone the harming of any wildlife, regardless of what it is.” Ummmmm, yes, actually you did condone the killing of these sharks for your wife's glory.
Bottom line - if the sharks were a threat, they pull her from the water.
I am doing a 2 mile open water swim next weekend in the Pacific. Can you please remove all the sharks from the water? Oh, and if you could get rid of the surface chop, wind, kelp beds on the surface, waves, surfers, SUPers, oh, and those pesky pelican dive bombing around me. That'd be great
Like others, these "official responses" don't make me feel any better. In fact, it sounds like Steve M. is saying "of the millions of sharks killed per year, what is three more when she did a swim like that"? At least that's how I am reading it. I understand Steve has some conflicting loyalties, but I would hope that we don't allow behavior like this to continue solely to promote this sport (which frankly, is fringe, and always will be). I think as others the issue of what is acceptable minimizing of risk is acceptable should be an open topic for discussion.
And the husband: "We, and many other swimmers, are more conservation minded than most people and do not condone the harming of any wildlife, regardless of what it is.” Ummmmm, yes, actually you did condone the killing of these sharks for your wife's glory.
Bottom line - if the sharks were a threat, they pull her from the water.
I am doing a 2 mile open water swim next weekend in the Pacific. Can you please remove all the sharks from the water? Oh, and if you could get rid of the surface chop, wind, kelp beds on the surface, waves, surfers, SUPers, oh, and those pesky pelican dive bombing around me. That'd be great
