Posted on 06/15/2016 8:48:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A 9-year-old Central California boy braved strong currents and cold water Tuesday to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz island and back.
KSEE-TV in Fresno reported that James Savage set a record as the youngest swimmer to make the journey to the former prison.
The station reported that by completing the swim, the fourth-grader from Los Banos broke a record previously held by a 10-year-old boy.
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“Survive the Savage Sea”
Sort of related: the History Channel has a 2-hour documentary about the three guys who escaped from Alcatraz back in 1963(?). I’m hard to convince, but it convinced me that the two brothers at least made it out and were still alive in the 1970s living in South America.
This is practice for when he ends up in prison.
This will not end well.
I am all for swimming to Alcatraz and back. But the fact that this is a “record” will encourage other people to break it. Why should anybody care that a child swam to Alcatraz, other than the child himself and the parents?
Saw that too, It was great. They had help though. But what happened to Frank Morris.
And people swear those guys who escaped from Alcatraz in homemade rubber rafts couldn’t have made it to shore.
Yeah, they had help. Based on the rest of the show I'd say Frank Morris made it off as well, though I don't think there was anything presented to speculate on his fate.
If a 9 year old kid can swim to Alcatraz, those 3 “missing” prisoners from the early 1960’s no doubt made it to shore and completed their escape successfully.
He probably stayed in America.
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