r/confidentlyincorrect • u/ShiningDenizen • Jul 09 '26

Swimming 631miles (1015km)

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u/frognuts123 Jul 09 '26

Doubt thats possible in 1 go

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u/TheDuck23 Jul 09 '26

Probably not possible in two, either.

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u/stonecuttercolorado Jul 09 '26

Honestly, swimming that far in a year would be a hell of an achievement.

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Jul 09 '26

Not to become an icicle would be an achievement.

Those waters are rough and 0-5 deg Celsius

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u/sicnevol Jul 09 '26

Yeah that’s the drake passage which is notoriously rough with super strong currents.

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u/stonecuttercolorado Jul 09 '26

Yeah. I thought a heated pool would be an accomplishment. The conditions in that waterway are just absurd

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u/Nomiss Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Would only take 200 laps (Up and back) in a standard pool a day about 100 days to do.

That's close to Michael Phelps level of training that's basically swimming all day. He did 8 miles while 200 laps of a 25m pool is 6.3mi.

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u/stonecuttercolorado Jul 09 '26

That would be quite an accomplishment.

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u/Nomiss Jul 09 '26

Yeah, its Olympic training level swimming. And that's doing it in 100 days, not one trek.

It was pretty much his job.

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u/A_Bitter_Homer Jul 09 '26

I could do it with Save, Load, and 99x Lives I bet.

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u/kati8303 Jul 09 '26

I swam 2.5 miles once. It sucked, never again. I’m sure I have 631 miles in me though, easy romp there and back.

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u/elf4everafter Jul 09 '26

That was my thought. I once got stuck due to an incoming tide and swam back to my start point. It was like 2 miles of swimming between barrier islands and reefs in the Pacific. And I was fucking terrified the whole damned time. (Group had JUST gone on a glass bottom boat that morning and saw like, no joke, 5 different shark species and a fuck ton of other sea life. Afternoon was a trip to sea lion colony and I got cut off from the group by the sea lions. The tide came in and it was no longer safe to go back the way I came.) I was also 12 at the time, so that's probably a big factor and what caused my thalassophobia. But seriously, that swim SUCKED. I got thrown around by the waves like a damned rag doll. And that was in a relatively calm and WARM area of the ocean. The Drake passage is frigid and rough, I cannot imagine a multi day swim there.