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Could you swim 9 miles to save your life?

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Brazen Bull. Enough said. Thanks MC. I'd probably be thinking that while floating in the ocean...."at least I'm not in the Brazen Bull...."
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Wanna hear something really dark? I actually have a little store of things in the back of my mind in case the time ever comes that I know I am going to die - and there is time to think. A different kind of bucket list, you could say.

Just stuff that sucks about life and makes it seem more okay to go away. Stuff I have done or seen that I hate and I wish I could forget but can't. There is one main thing actually - well two - but frequently stuff will come up that makes my stomach go bleeeaaahhh - and I think, yes, that could be added to (what I will know from now on as) my bucket list.

My stuff is actual stuff - but contemplating the brazen bull is another legit angle.
 
anything more than a 1-2 ft max swell would probably kill the floating... if the water temp is swimmable, and little swells, and the person is in decent shape, i believe more people than you think could make 9 miles... they might swim 9miles in a circle because they couldnt see land to know where to go, but i think the mind and body can do some incredible things when death is thrown at you... but you would need to be in decent shape to give it a chance... im in good enough shape and have enough swimming and floating experience to make it 9 miles in water warm enough to swim in and with small swells...

saulty and his 50k calorie guesstimation is off by probably 35k for a guy his size .. he is off by around 40k or more if the 9miles is done in a pool
 
Count me out...I get hammered when boating....hammered.
Although I did jump out a boat and swim about half a mile to shore after drinking all night and into next day.....hmmmm.

Nah....couldn't do it.

Same day walked a few miles down the lakefront in some very thin spongebob boxers....ahhhh...to be 20 something again.
 
It's safe to say I am the most buoyant out of everyone here so I could stay afloat for long periods of time. However it would require a more streamline type of body to efficiently work your way through the water but that streamline body has doesn't have the mass to stay buoyant as effectively either. Naturally merely being streamline doesn't necessarily equate to one being physically fit enough to endure the enormous demands on the body fighting even relatively calm seas, the elements and the dehydration that would surely set in after just a few hours.

It's safe to say everyone here is shark bait.
 
have they changed the story any? i was looking at the water in the area and the swells have been 3-5 foot with some windy weather for the past week or so... if that guy was more than a few miles out, he deserves a cape :blittster:

wallayyy.... from the confides of a boat, yes..you could see buildings/mountains and maybe some flatland, but i am pretty sure that on a normal day, you lose site of flatland at like 6 miles out... but i could be wrong, but i thought thats what i read..ill try to find it again.. but falling into the water, no chance you can see flatland from 9 miles... mountain or highrise, maybe
 
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saulty and his 50k calorie guesstimation is off by probably 35k for a guy his size .. he is off by around 40k or more if the 9miles is done in a pool
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My guesstimation included a number of fudge factors like, you are swimming in salty cold water (which is not a pool), you are scared because you think you are chased by sharks, you are wearing clothes (more drag force on the body), you are getting sunburned at the same time (you don't have suncreen on your back), swelling of the sea (you are not going on a straight line either vertically or horizontally..no pool lanes like the olympics). So you can't use the swimming pool calculators that give 15k calories. You got to add the fudge factors in the equation.
 
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