looks like someone was building a winter base??? Not the first human but still an amazing feat…
http://news.aol.com/article/figge-first-woman-to-swim-the-atlantic/333360
Nowhere near as hardcore as the French woman mentioned in the article, who swam from Massachusetts to France in 73 days.
Like Fawcett and the Seven Summits guys, if you have the $$$ and the time, sky’s the limit.
Psh, they all use fins. Buncha sissies if you ask me.
" Nowhere near as hardcore as the French woman"
Man, actually.
i and many others are calling bull dust on this…
In a way it is complete bull dust as you say, yet the lady was in the water for 6-8 hours a day for 21 days. So what can you say about it. There are two possible problems here, first is currents and the second is the cage.
Just doing a quick look at the numbers shows that she covered over 50 miles a day, which has been done in open water swims without current, but only once that I can think of, and not every day for 21 days. While there is nothing wrong with swimming with a current, the question is what the boat was doing while she was sleeping. Was it also drifting along on the trade winds? or did they hold position?
Another thing to question is the nature of the cage. The lady who “swam” from cuba to Florida had a cage with a plexiglass front on it acting as a sort of “windshield” we all are quite aware of the advantages of drafting, just imagine if you were drafting behind a 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of plexiglass. I have no idea if this lady’s shark cage was built the same way but it is something to ask.
But on the other hand, this lady did something, something I wouldn’t and couldn’t do. I am just not sure how to consider her accomplishment against other big open water swims that people have done and continue to do.