Just 1 week until our team braves the English Channel.
Massive waves, strong currents, rapids, and water as cold as 15 degrees. Yes, Center Parcs is a great place for Channel swim training.
I've been holidaying with friends and family at Center Parcs this week, and it's given me a bit of time to check out English Channel statistics. Not a good idea.
The English Channel is the third busiest shipping lane in the world. But, the Strait of Dover (which is where we're swimming), is the busiest shipping lane in the world. Roughly 600 ships travel through the Strait every 24 hours. Given that I'm estimating a swim time of 18 hours, that means we'll be weaving our way between 400 massive ships that take several miles just to stop. It makes for some wonderful photographs, but it's scary - very, very scary.
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