Episode Transcript: #1200 - Ross Edgley
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4, 3, 2, 1, dude.
First of all, what possessed you to want to swim around the entire UK?
How many thousands of miles is that?
Yeah, 2,000 miles altogether.
2,000 miles of swimming.
Yeah, yeah.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, and then halfway around I realised how big Great Britain was.
You've done some long swims before, but not like nothing even remotely.
Like what's the longest swim you did before this?
Yeah, I did, this is a bit of a strange story.
I tried to swim between St. Lucia and Martinique, two Caribbean islands.
It's only 40 kilometres from point to point.
For charity, I was trying to swim from point to point with a 100 pound tree attached to my trunks.
So I was pulling the 100 pound tree, 6 foot waves crashing down, and I actually didn't make it from point to point.
I was like 5 kilometres from the end.
When I didn't make it, I decided to swim back the other way.
So I ended up swimming over 100 kilometres with a 100 pound tree.
It took me 32 hours, but still didn't make it.
What went wrong where you didn't make it?
Tides, currents, you know.