Swim from Cozumel to Cancun

http://www.theoceans.net/story/61Yea...Jul42004.shtml

This old guy did it in 14 hours, which I thought would have been shorter
given the fact that he could have ridden a current (the same ones that
alledgedly had taken some divers to Cuba) most of the way.

By comparison, the record swim across the British Channel (22 miles) was
7 hrs and 17 minutes. Does that mean we could find better drift dives
by jumping into the British Channel?

The British Channel record was at the rate of alightly less than 20
minutes per mile, which is clearly untenable at a static pool or non-
current swims. Not sure what the USMC "cable records" are and if they
were done in pools or still open water. But the US national record
for 1 mile is nearly 21 minutes.

http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldrecords.php

Ooops. Never mind. The 2-mile record was less than 20 minutes per
mile.

Wonder how long it might take one to swim the Cozumel Cancun route
with fins.

Just a bit of idle speculation here.

-- Bob.

Reef Fish wrote:
> http://www.theoceans.net/story/61Yea...Jul42004.shtml
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.... "shark-infested" channel? Considering the crusero traffic, I'd
think sharks would be the least of his worries.


--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote in message news:<cf0vad$f4k@library1.airnews.net>...
> Reef Fish wrote:
> > http://www.theoceans.net/story/61Yea...Jul42004.shtml
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> ... "shark-infested" channel? Considering the crusero traffic, I'd
> think sharks would be the least of his worries.


While calling the passage from Coz to Cancun a "shark infested channel"
is a journalistic hyperbole, the possibility of an unfriendly shark
encounter is not entirely negligible.

There have been several occasions in Cozumel in which the disappearnce
of divers had been attributed to, or at least speculated to be, the
presence of tiger sharks.

Of course there are those man-eating nurse sharks and reef sharks
you can find in Cozumel every day ... and indeed very little is
known about what lurks in the waters BETWEEN Cozumel and Cancun.

But with a team of escorts like Paul had, I think he would have been
safe in the waters infested with white sharks. BTW, has anyone seen
the Discovery footage of a freediver trying to RIDE a white shark by
sneaking up on it and grabbing its fin?

-- Bob.

Reef Fish wrote:
> Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote in message news:<cf0vad$f4k@library1.airnews.net>...
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>>Reef Fish wrote:
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>>>http://www.theoceans.net/story/61Yea...Jul42004.shtml
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>>[....]
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>>
>>... "shark-infested" channel? Considering the crusero traffic, I'd
>>think sharks would be the least of his worries.
>
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>
> While calling the passage from Coz to Cancun a "shark infested channel"
> is a journalistic hyperbole, the possibility of an unfriendly shark
> encounter is not entirely negligible.
>
> There have been several occasions in Cozumel in which the disappearnce
> of divers had been attributed to, or at least speculated to be, the
> presence of tiger sharks.
>
> Of course there are those man-eating nurse sharks and reef sharks
> you can find in Cozumel every day ... and indeed very little is
> known about what lurks in the waters BETWEEN Cozumel and Cancun.
>
> But with a team of escorts like Paul had, I think he would have been
> safe in the waters infested with white sharks. BTW, has anyone seen
> the Discovery footage of a freediver trying to RIDE a white shark by
> sneaking up on it and grabbing its fin?
>
> -- Bob.


About the only thing I can think of that actually lurks in the waters
BETWEEN Coz and the mainland would be contents of a crusero bilge just
before making port - Paul wouldn't have been the only 'floater' out
there. Personally, I'm amazed he survived the rash.

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

For the oldtimers - I remember about 10-years ago, Darrel (sp) Wiltshire's
13-year old daughter made the same swim. (Darrel is Jimmy Kitchen's sister)

JK
http://www.mxtravel.com/cozumel/cozumel_diving.html
http://www.mxtravel.com/cozumel/santa_fe.html

>Subject: Re: Swim from Cozumel to Cancun
>From: Jer gdunn@airmail.ten
>Date: 8/7/04 1:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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>Reef Fish wrote:
>> Jer <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote in message
>news:<cf0vad$f4k@library1.airnews.net>...
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>>>Reef Fish wrote:
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>>>>http://www.theoceans.net/story/61Yea...MileSwimJul420
04.shtml
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>>>... "shark-infested" channel? Considering the crusero traffic, I'd
>>>think sharks would be the least of his worries.
>>
>>
>>
>> While calling the passage from Coz to Cancun a "shark infested channel"
>> is a journalistic hyperbole, the possibility of an unfriendly shark
>> encounter is not entirely negligible.
>>
>> There have been several occasions in Cozumel in which the disappearnce
>> of divers had been attributed to, or at least speculated to be, the
>> presence of tiger sharks.
>>
>> Of course there are those man-eating nurse sharks and reef sharks
>> you can find in Cozumel every day ... and indeed very little is
>> known about what lurks in the waters BETWEEN Cozumel and Cancun.
>>
>> But with a team of escorts like Paul had, I think he would have been
>> safe in the waters infested with white sharks. BTW, has anyone seen
>> the Discovery footage of a freediver trying to RIDE a white shark by
>> sneaking up on it and grabbing its fin?
>>
>> -- Bob.
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>About the only thing I can think of that actually lurks in the waters
>BETWEEN Coz and the mainland would be contents of a crusero bilge just
>before making port - Paul wouldn't have been the only 'floater' out
>there. Personally, I'm amazed he survived the rash.
>
>--
>jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
>"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
>what we know." -- Richard Wilbur
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