22 Tips to Swim the English Channel
These are my 22 tips for swimming across the English Channel. The principles are simple, but effective. Stick by them and you will achieve your goal.
We all have our own ‘Channel’ to cross. It may not be between Dover and Calais, but I believe these principles apply to almost any endeavour in life.
Enjoy!
Unlocking a Dream
Sailing in rough seas is one thing. Swimming in them is another.
We were far out to sea in the English Channel, 32 days into the Long Swim, with a long way to go to Dover.
I was swimming past the Isle of Wight in a serious storm and the light was fading fast. Our yacht was surging away from me in the strong winds. The swells were so big that, even if I caught up with her, I didn’t know how I would get back onboard.
That’s when it hit me: getting your message heard can be hard work.
Marine Protected Areas offer Hope
The Lewis Pugh Foundation was formed to preserve our oceans for a peaceful and sustainable future.
To date the Foundation has been instrumental in securing full protection for over 2 million km2 of vulnerable ocean.
Its goal is to ensure that 30% of our oceans are properly protected by 2030.
You won’t find a more captivating storyteller.
As an ocean advocate and a pioneer swimmer, Lewis applies his hard-learned lessons to the corporate environment.
He shares the visualisation strategies, radical tactical shifts, teamwork and focus that enabled him to achieve seemingly impossible tasks.
Most importantly he inspires people to dig deep, define their goals and achieve their own ‘impossible’.
Spin the Globe
Explore the world and see where Lewis has swum. Click on any pin to find out more about that particular swim.
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Happy #DolphinDay to these incredibly smart, social creatures. DYK 👇👀
🐬The killer whale is the largest species of dolphin.
🐬Some can reach speeds of 48 kph.
🐬They don’t chew their food, they swallow it whole!
🐬Bottlenose dolphins can recognise themselves in a mirror.
By the time a toddler today graduates from high school, summer sea ice in the high North could be a thing of the past https://on.natgeo.com/3dZum1D
In 1966, Australian fisherman Peter Warner rescued six boarding school friends who had been shipwrecked on a Pacific island for 15 months, 60 Minutes reported earlier this month.
Warner died today at 90 years old in a boating accident. https://cbsn.ws/3uRIi4L
The "economy" is ultimately our material relationship with each other and with the rest of the living world. We have to decide whether we want that relationship to be based on extraction and exploitation, or on reciprocity and care.
"Having orbited Earth in a spacecraft, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" – this was Yuri Gagarin 60 years ago today after he became the first human to reach space 🚀🧑🚀🇷🇺🌍
DYK 🗣️The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus in the world 😯🐙 The size record is held by one that was 9m across and weighed more than 272kg!
