4, 2, 2, 1, dude.

1, dude.

First of all what possessed you to want to swim around the entire UK? How many

thousands of miles is that? Yeah 2,000 miles altogether.

2,000 miles of swimming.

Yeah, yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time and then halfway round I realized how big

Great Britain was.

But you've done some long swims before, but not like nothing even remotely.

Like what's the longest swim you did before this?

Yeah, I did, I did, um, this is a bit of a strange story. I strange story I did I tried to swim between Saint Lucia and Martinique

to Caribbean islands it's only 40 kilometers from point to point and and for charity I was trying to swim

from point to point with a hundred pound tree attached to my trunks.

So I was pulling the hundred pound tree, six foot waves crashing down and I actually didn't make it from point to point I was like

five kilometers from the end and when I didn't make it I decided to swim back the

other way so I ended up swimming over a hundred kilometers with a hundred pound tree took me

32 hours but still didn't make it so so what what went wrong where you didn't make

it tides currents you know and I know get swept away. Yeah, yeah and especially attached to a tree right

How big was this tree? So a hundred pounds, but I mean it floats but it was more the drag

So if there's any influence from tides or currents and it's

pulling you in one direction, I mean I was basically going to miss Martinique so I don't know I was

heading to Cuba, you know somewhere like that and then on the way back down you know I was get they turned to me again and they said like you're gonna miss St Lucia you're gonna end up in I don't know whatever's further south than St Lucia and I think I realized as physically fit as you are, the ocean just doesn't care.

You know, it just doesn't care.

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