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Aug 2017
11:53am, 8 Aug 2017
824 posts
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Luiz
So sorry to hear this LD. I saw a link to the news story on FB earlier, so sad xx
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Aug 2017
12:02pm, 8 Aug 2017
36,246 posts
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purps
Oh LD, sorry to hear about this. 
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Aug 2017
12:10pm, 8 Aug 2017
1,830 posts
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ferret
Thats devastating. I noticed the boat had turned around, just thought he'd been picked up & was warm & safe on the boat. Too sad for words.
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Aug 2017
2:14pm, 8 Aug 2017
7,775 posts
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Little Nemo
Oh no, that's awful How sad for his friends and family.
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Aug 2017
12:02pm, 11 Aug 2017
1,838 posts
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ferret
I went in sea straight after hill rep short run, longest time in so far, swam nearly a mile, about 40 minutes, god it's cold, I'm still shivering & one side of new tinted prescription goggles leak. Not sure what to do about that. & I might resort to wetsuit to keep warm & feel safer, can't swim parallel to shore where I live now, it was out alongside Portland Harbour wall, across the cove & back by rocks to steps.
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Aug 2017
12:10pm, 11 Aug 2017
18,758 posts
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LindsD
Good swimming, ferret!
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Aug 2017
1:45pm, 11 Aug 2017
1,840 posts
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ferret
Thank you :-), shouldn't whine about being cold, I do appreciate I'm lucky to have nice swimming close by & time to do it.
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Aug 2017
2:49pm, 11 Aug 2017
19,327 posts
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LazyDaisy
I think a wetsuit would be a good idea ferret, at least until you feel at home on that route. You are as always, amazing
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Aug 2017
3:06pm, 11 Aug 2017
19,330 posts
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LazyDaisy
I see on Twitter that weather permitting, a woman is due to start her 'Arch to Arc' challenge tonight. Before she sets off they will hold a minute's silence for a man who died in the Channel last August, who was also swimming under this company's supervision* though not, I think, doing the A2A, and my clubmate. That's quite something for her to contend with, I'd have thought.
*There is no suggestion in either last year's tragedy or this, that the company was in any way to blame. It's just the nature of the beast: endurance athletes push themselves to the limit and sometimes I suppose, they push just that bit too far :-(. A friend commented that it's a struggle between determination and physiology and determination wins.
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Aug 2017
5:05pm, 11 Aug 2017
18,767 posts
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LindsD
Gosh, you'd have to have some mental strength to start after that, wouldn't you?
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