Swimmer plans record North Pole swim [to highlight global warming]

Reuters ^ | May 28, 2007 | John Joseph

[Zakeet]

[samtheman]

Well isn’t that special.

[Manic_Episode]

I thought this was going to be about Ted Kennedy.

Nevermind.

[CheyennePress]

There is something very odd about this man. This would kill your average person in a few minutes, if that long.

[cripplecreek]

Such a swim would have been impossible as little as 10 years ago because the water would have been frozen, Pugh says.

Not true but I suspect he knows this. When I was in elemenary school we learned about the shifting ice and how cracks (Leads) open and close all the time.

[Republican Wildcat]

I’ve been refreshing to see to how many posts it would take for him to be mentioned. :-)

[Bigh4u2]

“”Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer,” said Pugh, “

Duhhhh!

Who’da thought ice MELTS in the SUMMER.

[toddlintown]

What about “shrinkage?”

[lepton]

Such a swim would have been impossible as little as 10 years ago because the water would have been frozen, Pugh says.

"Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at 0 degrees Celsius.

Ah, the sound of the clueless elitist...who while proclaiming that most people have no idea that you can find patches of open water at the North Pole, also doesn't realize himself that it's not simply a recent development.

[HIDEK6]

This article sounds like it's phase 1 of a Darwin Alert post.

He'll probably be devoured by a polar bear.

[freekitty]

He probably freeze to death.

[sgtbono2002]

I thought it was too I was wondering how they were going to get the Oldsmobile up to the North pole.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Didn’t the submarine Nautilus surface at the North Pole?

[Phlap]

Teddy is going north?

[FlingWingFlyer]

"A British adventurer." ROTFL!

It must be nice to not have to work for a living like the rest of us.

[rockabyebaby]

I thought this was going to be about Ted Kennedy.

LOL! Living in his home state and old enough to remember what happened, I too thought it was about "the swimmer"!

[M203M4]

I think this guy should prepare first by reducing his carbon footprint dramatically.

Easy and free, and it is even carbon-credit neutral! Bang head faster for more power.

[trek]

"He'll probably be devoured by a polar bear."

I don't think so. Global warming killed all but two. And they are stranded on an iceberg. I saw the picture.

[BurbankKarl]

my money is on that he freezes to death.

[UnklGene]

Look at the amateur!