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  • Glad he's alive, and it's quite amazing that he might claim he had been over there and was just coming back ... in eight hours ...

    Nah, that was just me chatting shit. Hoping more info does come out about it. Channel swimming is an expensive business, pilot boats were a good couple of grand last time I used one, so may well be someone who thought he was a good enough swimmer and thought he could cut out the middleman. This is a good advertisement for the pilots.

  • Oh, I see, I thought you had some inside information. It wasn't totally inconceivable that he might have gone a bit incoherent during such an experience or was unhinged enough in the first place before he attempted it.

  • Thinking about it, I don't recall many people coming out that incoherent after extreme swims, other than through hypothermia. I've encountered a fair few hallucinating/otherwise incoherent people on ultraruns or at the business end of ultratris.

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