Tag: extreme cold water swimming
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Swimming the Bering Strait — A Birthday Into History July 19, 1993 For his 58th birthday, Ted didn’t ask for a cake.He asked for the coldest, loneliest stretch of water on Earth. He wanted to swim the Bering Strait. Just a few years earlier, legendary cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox had stunned the world by crossing…
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When Even Ted Said “Maybe Not” — The English Channel & The Ice Waters of Siberia The Swim That Never Happened The English Channel — Dover, England Some adventures are conquered.Others are wisely declined. When Ted and Vivian traveled to Dover, England, they were invited to meet the longtime organizers of the legendary English Channel…