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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Good post Chaos and I'm glad you chimed in. Let me play devil's advocate to pick your brain more. Suppose I am trying to be the first person to run across Alaska (although I'm sure it has been done). Obviously Alaska has bears. While I would expect my support crew to disable a bear if I was in immediate danger, at what point is it the athlete's imperative to stop the attempt due to an obvious potential hazard to the environment, most notably including wildlife? People don't really like sharks but imagine if it were the seals recently killed on Cape Cod or menacing cuddly little puppies?
And, what kind of pre-event planning typically takes place in regards to foreseeable animal issues, if any?
This is the ethical discussion we should be having, but unless we take a vegan-hinduesque position, it is all grey area and could include a broad range of dilemmas.
Is hunting OK? for food? for fur? (fashion) for fun? (hockey mom popping caps in wolves from a helicopter)
Same with fishing.... food? trophy? catch and release? (BTW, the mortality rate of caught and released fish is quite high)
....and what about collateral damage? (on the verge of going political here)
This swim was never attempted before, so I'm sure the crew planned for everything they could imagine.... but not everything possible..
Good post Chaos and I'm glad you chimed in. Let me play devil's advocate to pick your brain more. Suppose I am trying to be the first person to run across Alaska (although I'm sure it has been done). Obviously Alaska has bears. While I would expect my support crew to disable a bear if I was in immediate danger, at what point is it the athlete's imperative to stop the attempt due to an obvious potential hazard to the environment, most notably including wildlife? People don't really like sharks but imagine if it were the seals recently killed on Cape Cod or menacing cuddly little puppies?
And, what kind of pre-event planning typically takes place in regards to foreseeable animal issues, if any?
This is the ethical discussion we should be having, but unless we take a vegan-hinduesque position, it is all grey area and could include a broad range of dilemmas.
Is hunting OK? for food? for fur? (fashion) for fun? (hockey mom popping caps in wolves from a helicopter)
Same with fishing.... food? trophy? catch and release? (BTW, the mortality rate of caught and released fish is quite high)
....and what about collateral damage? (on the verge of going political here)
This swim was never attempted before, so I'm sure the crew planned for everything they could imagine.... but not everything possible..
