No, what’s funny is the T-shirt I have:
Titanic Swim team 1912...
A friend gave it to me as a joke after I described a swim I did when I was 16.
Seemed stupid to him but, since he wasn’t there it was funny.
Today, a wealthy friend owns a home right where I did that dumb swim and I’d do it again...In October, when there is no riptide like there was that day.
IN the 1990s I got really good at swimming as I got a season pass every summer for a huge open water swimming hole, a flooded rock Quarry. Its called Beaver Dam Swim club in Cockeysville Maryland and it was the greatest place in the world in summer those days.
Every Sept when still hot we would go down Ocean City Assateague Island camping on beach and swim out miles with no lifeguard every morning and afternoon.,
It was such a thrill to feel so comfortable so far out in the water, we also did some night swimming.
Well back in 2000 due to a cold very rainy summer I got little practice that year, we went down to Ocean city in Sept and I went out when it was windy and the waves were huge.
This was the first time I thought “I may die here” as the huge waves crashed down me and I struggled to swim back up for some air.
I managed to stay calm so as not to surely drown and I worked my way in slowly, heart racing and out of breath.
It took a while after that before I felt comfortable in deep water again. That was a close one.