[Sam Cree]

What's amazing to me is that if Todd was swimming at two miles an hour, which in my view is a stretch, the swim would have taken five hours. I'm sort of wondering how he could swim 5 + hours (more likely seven or eight) and continue to maintain course. You have to imagine that he meandered some, yet he still made it from an offshore island into the mainland and up a river.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

The article indicates it took him 6 hours. I wonder if the tide was helping him at all, perhaps pushing him in?