Doc Lynam
I hate the Daily Mail
- Jun 19, 2011
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Huge ships seem to haunt the family since my great-granddad swam into the huge RMS Titanic 400 miles from the Newfoundland coast in April 1912, losing over 1,500 souls in the process, whilst he was working on a solo trans-Atlantic swim.
During WWII, my dad swam into the Bismarck, a huge German ship, in May 1941, spraining his wrist on the rudder and knocking the plug out of the hull with his knee.
So it comes as no surprise that I tell you that I am a professional cross-Channel swimmer and, like my dad and great-granddad, I have been involved with many collisions with huge ships.
Only last spring, I was involved in a collision with a huge Maersk container ship whilst doing breast stroke, pulling a muscle in my arm in the process.
On making the return trip to Dover, via Copenhagan, I then collided with the huge USS Enterprise whilst she was on a courtesy visit to a Danish brewery. This time, despite doing a much faster front crawl, I received slight but painful bruising to my big toe.
Since last year, I have also had collisions with several other huge ships but, on finding and reading this book, I have taken on board the tips provided therein and not had a single collision with a huge ship since.
However, despite curbing all collisions with huge ships, I have had several collisions with small ships just over the past few weeks.
These collisions include an unnamed hit-and-run, whilst doing butterfly stroke in the Baltic Sea, with a vessel owned by a Russian oligarch. I'm afraid the name of the small ship was written in the Cyrillic alphabet so I could not identify the small ship before he got away.
There was another "prang", this time whilst doing back stroke in the Bay of Biscay, with a replica of the "Santa Maria", as used by Christopher Columbus to discover the Americas in 1492.
The worst injury I received after a collision with a small ship was a black eye whilst doing doggy paddle as I collided with the "Black Pearl" just outside the Disney theme park in Florida only last week.
Therefore, I am looking forward to the second book in the series "How to Avoid Small Ships" which is due for release later this year (or not).
One review:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-rev...iewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Huge ships seem to haunt the family since my great-granddad swam into the huge RMS Titanic 400 miles from the Newfoundland coast in April 1912, losing over 1,500 souls in the process, whilst he was working on a solo trans-Atlantic swim.
During WWII, my dad swam into the Bismarck, a huge German ship, in May 1941, spraining his wrist on the rudder and knocking the plug out of the hull with his knee.
So it comes as no surprise that I tell you that I am a professional cross-Channel swimmer and, like my dad and great-granddad, I have been involved with many collisions with huge ships.
Only last spring, I was involved in a collision with a huge Maersk container ship whilst doing breast stroke, pulling a muscle in my arm in the process.
On making the return trip to Dover, via Copenhagan, I then collided with the huge USS Enterprise whilst she was on a courtesy visit to a Danish brewery. This time, despite doing a much faster front crawl, I received slight but painful bruising to my big toe.
Since last year, I have also had collisions with several other huge ships but, on finding and reading this book, I have taken on board the tips provided therein and not had a single collision with a huge ship since.
However, despite curbing all collisions with huge ships, I have had several collisions with small ships just over the past few weeks.
These collisions include an unnamed hit-and-run, whilst doing butterfly stroke in the Baltic Sea, with a vessel owned by a Russian oligarch. I'm afraid the name of the small ship was written in the Cyrillic alphabet so I could not identify the small ship before he got away.
There was another "prang", this time whilst doing back stroke in the Bay of Biscay, with a replica of the "Santa Maria", as used by Christopher Columbus to discover the Americas in 1492.
The worst injury I received after a collision with a small ship was a black eye whilst doing doggy paddle as I collided with the "Black Pearl" just outside the Disney theme park in Florida only last week.
Therefore, I am looking forward to the second book in the series "How to Avoid Small Ships" which is due for release later this year (or not).
