Posted on 08/08/2015 9:34:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Kimberley Chambers burst into tears as soon as she laid a hand on her crew's boat.
The physical contact signaled the end of a record-breaking 30-mile swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge. Chambers, a New Zealander who calls San Francisco home, made history Saturday as the first woman to complete the swim.
Chambers, 38, spent 17 hours and 12 minutes in a stretch of water notorious for its great white shark population -- but didn't encounter any.
"I guess they don't like Kiwis," she quipped, adding that she "slipped off the boat" instead of jumping into the water so as not to "wake the locals."
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That’s a heck of a swim.
I got my mile swim merit badge in The Boy Scouts and that was a heck of a swim.
Congratulations Kimberley Chambers.
That’s a COLD swim.
Article days she trained for three months in cold water and cold conditions to get ready for it - including no hot showers, etc.
Incredible achievement. Literally awesome.
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/dsdt/cwtg/cpac.html
64.2 (F) degrees on August 9th. Cold, but warmer than usual. I wonder if the date she chose was projected to have the warmest water temperature of the year?
San Francisco beaches may look nice, but they attract few swimmers. The first time I stuck my foot in the water, I found out why.
That’s an amazing achievement.
I once piloted a 40 foot sailboat from Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, across the bay, and maybe twenty miles up the Sacramento river. It was literally one of the most difficult things I have ever done in this life.
“Woman Makes History With 30-Mile Swim to Golden Gate Bridge”
Most women have more body fat, in all age groups relative to men, which helps in cold conditions. Kudos to the woman in the article and of course fitness counts as well.
I remember that swim too. I still have the swimming trucks
with the patch sewed on it. Too bad I can’t fit in them!
My boy was surfing here in SF for a while.
I am reliably informed the surfing is actually pretty good.
Even with wetsuits it takes some fortitude though.
And that’s not a 30 mile swim.
My dad berths at the Brisbane Marina and did the same trip you did. His wife got their boat stuck in the mud before they even got into the delta.
They had to pay a service to pull them out.
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