02.09.09 A WOMAN SWAM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
For reasons far beyond my comprehension, a woman has swum across the Atlantic Ocean. Jennifer Figge, 56, swam eight hours a day for the last month after leaving from the islands of Cape Verde, resting at night on the sailboat that accompanied her during her trip. Wow. It only took a month? Sounds like somebody’s sailboat was moving while she slept.
She saw a pod of pilot whales, several turtles, dozens of dolphins, plenty of Portuguese man-of-war — but no sharks. “I was never scared,” Figge said. “Looking back, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I can always swim in a pool.” [...]
Figge woke most days around 7 a.m., eating pasta and baked potatoes while she and the crew assessed the weather. Her longest stint in the water was about eight hours, and her shortest was 21 minutes. Crew members would throw bottles of energy drinks as she swam; if the seas were too rough, divers would deliver them in person. At night she ate meat, fish and peanut butter, replenishing the estimated 8,000 calories she burned a day.
What a wonderful story. An inspiring tale of someone doing something dull in order to be the first name in a record book that no one will look at. It was a tale of wetsuits, and turtles, and high-calorie diets. Who can ever forget this magical achievement? Besides everyone.
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A WOMAN SWAM ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Actually she wasn’t even the first. some French chick already did it
Wake me up when somebody swims across the atlantic without sleeping on a boat every night. Then I’ll be impressed
Please.
Swim across the Pacific. Step your game up.
Regan?
“Your mother sucks cocks in hell!!”
And you guys say hockey is boring.
Do you know what she did, your cunting daughter?
Woman? All photographic evidence to the contrary.
too bad she made it…yikes
sharks wouldn’t eat THAT!!!
Someone wake me up when she is banging an asian cocktail waitress and losing endorsements for smoking weed.
Anything to get outta doin dishes. Bitch.
“Tonight, you will be visited by three ghosts.”
If she was holding a blow torch instead of those flowers she would be a dead ringer for my thursday night rexlation therapist.
*relaxation
/hangs head in shame
Upon reaching shore she was speared to death by a frightened local fisherman who was convinced he saw a real life sea monster. Oh, irony, you sassy bitch.
She was 56. I’m going to file this under “Not that hard.”
At night she ate meat, fish…
Well which is it? Does she like seamen or fish tacos?
I thought that they killed Hollow Man?
Mannish looks aside, has anyone done the math here? How is it even remotely possible to swim 2000 miles in a month?
I’m calling bullshit on this one. That’s 75 miles a day! No one can swim that fast for that long!
For everyone who called bullshit: you’re right.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-great-Atlantic-Ocean-swimming-hoax?urn=oly,140525
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