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Swimming To Antarctica

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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 De