Columbus is not amused.
Posted on 02/08/2009 6:22:12 PM PST by Steelfish
Woman scores Atlantic swim first
A 56-year-old American athlete has become the first woman on record to swim the Atlantic.
Jennifer Figge took 24 days to swim from the Cape Verde islands off Africa to Trinidad. The exact distance she covered has yet to be calculated. She swam inside a cage to protect her from sharks.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Well then this shouldn't count.
56 year old? Awesome!
I once tried swimming the Atlantic but halfway across I got tired and had to swim back.
Yea, then she only swam for so many hours a day, the “rested” on board the ship every night???
Oh well, equality and all that such stuff......
Why wouldn’t it count for someone swimming in the pool of an ocean liner, as long as the ship stopped every time she did.
Jeez, you would expect maybe a comfy chair.
Well then this shouldn't count.
Even worse, she swam it in 8-hr. shifts, retiring to the support boat for 16 hrs. every nite.
Rather like climbing Everest one foot at a time. Still, I couldn't swim for even one 8-hour shift without drowning.
“I once tried swimming the Atlantic but halfway across I got tired and had to swim back.”
Do you wear a beard?
Columbus is not amused.
i like that idea.
I wonder why the cage did not sink or how it moved forward
when she swam?
No beard. Just a speedo and water wings.
Floating cage.
Floated in the cage and drifted with the current. This is a hoax.
Google Earth has this distance at 2500 miles. She didn’t swim 100 miles /day. This is nonsense and it’s been making the rounds all day.
24 day ~8 hours a day= 192 hours swimming.
From google earth approx distance 2400 miles.
AVE 12.5 MILES PER HOUR
Witch way do the currents flow there?
i watched the short video at her site and it looks like
the cage is pulled forward by a boat.
The currents did most of the work - I wonder if the boat drifted at night also.
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