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Brent Hobbs Successfully Swims the English Channel

I received an email from Glen Mehus that Brent Hobbs had successfully swum across the English channel! Glen wrote that Brent completed the crossing in 10 hours and 43 minutes and is only the second swimmer from British Columbia to ever complete the crossing!

Brent, a member of Okanagan Masters Swim Club, recently passed the Million Metre mark in the Million Metre Challenge and he sent me the following photos at that time:

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Update:

You can read about, and view photos from the swim on Brent's blog:
www.englishchannelogopogo.blogspot.com/

Posted at 06:55PM Jul 29, 2008 by Lindsay in Challenge Swims  |  Comments[0]

Kristin Roe completed her 30km double crossing of the Northumberland Strait

BORDEN-CARLETON, P.E.I. - After just under 15 hours of swimming in 19-degree water, a Nova Scotia woman completed a marathon swim Saturday that took her from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick and back, all in less than a day.

Kristin Roe, 27, touched shore in P.E.I. Saturday evening after finishing a gruelling 30-kilometre double-crossing of the Northumberland Strait, the body of water between P.E.I. [and] the Maritime mainland.

There is more in the complete Canadian Press article

Some links to related articles:

• Kristen did a single crossing in 2005: CBC Article
• Kristen swam from Cape Town South Africa to Robben's Island in 2006: MyMSC article
• Lara Gibson swam the Northumberland Straight in 2006: MyMSC pre-swim article, MyMSC post-swim article

Posted at 04:13PM Jul 28, 2008 by Lindsay in Challenge Swims  |  Comments[0]

Northumberland Straight Crossings

Earlier this month Jen Alexander attempted to swim from PEI to New Brunswick to Nova Scotia. I followed her progress via live GPS tracking at the time but just now decided to make a blog entry when I ran across a CBC article. Jen made it from PEI to NB but was pulled out of the water before making it to NS. I think congratulations are still in order!

Jen's got her own blog at http://marathonswimmer.livejournal.com/. There were several articles in the press and she provides a list of press articles in her blog.

There are more jellyfish in the Northumberland Straight this year than I can ever remember, Jen includes some jellyfish memories in her memories from her crossing. Just an hour ago I gave up on getting a swim in today because the jellyfish were just too thick to put up with. I really hope they'll stay out of the bay for the Tracadie open water swim tomorrow.

According to CBC radio Kristen Roe is attempting a double crossing today. She's got a web site at www.kristinroe.com.

Posted at 05:47PM Jul 26, 2008 by Lindsay in Challenge Swims  |  Comments[0]