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One man's mission to become the first person to swim across the Atlantic Ocean
telegraph.co.uk ^
| Harry Wallop
Posted on 10/17/2015 11:47:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Interesting graphics at source.
To: RoosterRedux
Seems silly to me. But he’s not hurting anyone.
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:53:10 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
To: RoosterRedux
Farewell and adieu, you fair Spanish Ladies.....
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:55:33 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: RoosterRedux
I see a follow up story coming....
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:55:55 AM PDT
by
Dutch Boy
To: RoosterRedux
He will not stop swimming until he hits Natal in Brazil. The distance is 1,763 miles. Oh, I think he might.
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posted on
10/17/2015 11:57:30 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
To: RoosterRedux
Too bad his (likely) very distant relative, Douglas Hooper, aka Ibrahim, could not join him in his swim attempt. It would be great publicity for mohamedanism and to overcome the ‘bad reputation’ of sharks.
To: dainbramaged
The guy’s name is, “Hooper,”...same as Richard Dreyfuss’s character in, “Jaws.”
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:00:24 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: RoosterRedux
I predict a rescue call less than 100 miles offshore. The things people do to become famous, it’s bizarre.
To: RoosterRedux
Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not” had about a guy who rowed across the Atlantic from the US to Europe (an immigrant who wanted to go back for a visit).
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:00:54 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: RoosterRedux
Did you hear about the moron (definitely not from an eastern European nation) who tried to swim across the Atlantic Ocean? He swam halfway, figured it was too far, and swam back.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:10:00 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:17:26 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
He’s gonna need a lot of Red Bull and plenty of 5 Hour Energy if he swims 1700+ miles.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:21:54 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: RoosterRedux
hes coming out of the water for naps I Trust??
I wonder what sort of digs the main support vessel boasts?
so wheres the challenge in that??
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:23:20 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: RoosterRedux
If he doesn’t have a raft to get into when he’s not swimming, and a few people in an escort boat to provide food, shelter and fresh drinking water, he will be fish food in a couple of days-people like him need a job or hobby that keeps them too busy to allow their imagination to run in dangerous directions...
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:23:48 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
That’s a long way to use a human body to troll for sharks.
To: RoosterRedux
Uh, algore on his way to the climate differentiational summit in gay paris? To avoid that yucky carbon stuff of course. :>}
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:31:40 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: RoosterRedux
Technically it's not really swimming across the Atlantic as he'll have extended breaks on the support boat and will only spend about 40% of each day actually in the water.
It's all a very nice story and certainly an achievement of durance. But "swimming across the Atlantic?" Not quite. I walk 5 miles a day and so about every 600 days, I technically walk the distance from New York to Los Angeles. But it is not correct to say that I walked coast to coast. When somebody says they are swimming across the Atlantic, I'm expecting that they will be in the water the entire time. I realize that's not physically possible which is why truly swimming the Atlantic will never be done.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:31:59 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
To: MeshugeMikey
Check out the source for all that data.
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:32:31 PM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: RegulatorCountry
Well, there is supposedly going to be two “shark safety experts” on the trip as well. Is that anything like “gun safety experts” like the lyin’ king or hildebeast or margabby kelly-giffords or shannon t watts?
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:34:15 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
10/17/2015 12:34:26 PM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(Hillary belongs in the Big House - not the White House)
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