Emma France's Journey to Swimming the English ChannelShingle Stompers Relay - 16th September 2007

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Last minute relay!!

Well so much for the two months off - on 16th September '07 I was part of a English Channel Relay Team - 'The Shingle Stompers'.  The team was made up of a mixture of swimmers new to channel swimming and some who have swum before.   

Team Members were:

  • Peter Hanson

  • David Aslet

  • Margaret Elgar

  • Peter Midwood

  • Celia Trevan

Pilot was Neil Streeter and the boat was Suva.

We started at 00:05 and finished 14 hrs and 55 mins later at 15:00.  Our progress across the channel is shown below:

 

As you can see below the shipping lanes were quite busy, the chart is just as we were coming out of the first lane and into the next:

It sure was dark out there!!

Georgia in action

        

Land at last!!!

It really was a beautiful day out there!!