Swimming To Antarctica

February 10, 2022

She had no feeling in her skin. Only once on a competitive swim has her body temp dropped to a dangerous level -- during a 32-degree Antarctica trek in 2002.

Swimming To Antarctica Lynne Cox 9780156031301

Even though readers know she survived to tell the tale its a thrilling awesome and well-written story.

Swimming to antarctica. At ages fifteen and sixteen she broke the mens and womens world records for swimming the English Channela thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours thirty-six minutes. Since Lynne Cox completed the first swim in Antarctica in 2002 there are only 22 others to have joined her in swimming over 1 km in these waters with some returning over the years the most notable being Lewis Pugh who uses these extreme swims to bring attention on the problem of climate change. They told us the water temperatures were actually about 4 degrees below zero.

Swimming in Antarctica was an experience to say the least. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Continue reading the main story.

At ages fifteen and sixt. Lesen Sie Swimming to Antarctica Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer von Lynne Cox erhältlich bei Rakuten Kobo. LYNNE COX has set records all over the world for open-water swimming.

Coxs understated style makes for gripping reading -SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Thrilling vivid and lyrical an inspiring account of a life of aspiration and adventure-- Oliver Sacks. Her book about the experience Swimming to Antarctica was published in 2004. 9780156031301 Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.

Buy Swimming to Antarctica. The book details many of her swims in the sea including swimming in the cold Antarctic for 16km for 25 minutes. When reaching Antarctica waters a swim was a must.

She was named a Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and honored with a lifetime achievement award from the University of California Santa Barbara. Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox is a non-fiction book by an Olympic long distance swimmer who writes about her desire to swim her training and experience in long distance swimming and the journeys she made across various famous bodies of water including the Mediterranean Sea. 9780753820506 from Amazons Book Store.

She wasnt one of the stars but was consistently the only kid who seemed to enjoy swimming in the nastiest weather. Born in Boston 1957 Lynne took to swimming at a young age soon going from pool to open cold waters of the sea. In 2004 she wrote of her exploits in Swimming to Antarctica.

Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer Cox Lynne ISBN. Swimming to Antarctica. Many of Lynnes swims are unforgettable and about her personal goals.

Please Coach let us out of. The Bolivian Navy provided support boats. About Swimming to Antarctica At age fourteen she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.

Cox was in the water for 25 min swimming 122 miles 196 km. She has a photographic memory of her swims. She begins her story by telling of how she got her start on a swim team in southern California.

It took months for the sensation in her. She is the author of Swimming to Antarctica which won an Alex AwardShe lives in Los Alamitos California. More than the story of the greatest open-water swimmer Swimming to Antarctica is a portrait of rare and relentless drive.

Of course water that salty can be less than zero. Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer New Ed by Cox Lynne ISBN. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

She tells us how she conceived of planned and trained for each and re-creates for us the experience of swimming almost unswimmable bodies of water including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit. At age fourteen she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. Another of her accomplishments was swimming more than a mile 16 km in the waters of Antarctica.

Cox ends her story with her swim to Antarctica where she finishes the first Antarctic mile in 32-degree water in 25 minutes. The first to swim the Bering Strait--the channel that forms the boundary line between the United States and Russia--from Alaska to Siberia thereby opening the US-Soviet border for the first time in forty-eight years swimming in thirty-eight-degree water in four-foot waves without a shark cage wet suit or lanolin grease-.

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