The solution for a slow swim split?
How fast can YOU swim when chased by a crocodile? October 9, 1998
Web posted at: 1:32 p.m. EDT (1732 GMT)
DARWIN, Australia (CNN) – If you’re hoping to make record time doing laps in the pool, perhaps you should consider employing a training technique that one swim instructor in Australia’s Northern Territory claims yields record-breaking results: a crocodile.
It’s an old story from 1998 that I just came across. No way this would happen in the litigious U.S.
See here http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/09/fringe/australia.crocs/ for the full story
don’t know how fast I swim but do know I can run damn fast when one is after me for dinner. Of course the secret is to remain cool and do 90 degree turns as you run back to the car.
Aussies Pete Jacobs and Craig Walton employ this training tool for good measure!!!
I remember seeing that on the news. The crocodile sat on the bottom of the pool and hid from the swimmers above. It was a medium size crocodile less than 3 feet long (snout to tail tip) and could have inflicted a nasty bite.
don’t know how fast I swim but do know I can run damn fast when one is after me for dinner. Of course the secret is to remain cool and do 90 degree turns as you run back to the car.
desert dude,
I would swim faster than I have ever swam before and then shortly become dinner. No biggie size option here.
You don’t have to outrun the croc just one other swimmer. I use this same thinking when i surf.