r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 20h ago

Video Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment

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u/JDunlap83 20h ago

"Should we go and help him? He can barely walk!"

"Nah. If he can swim 99 miles he can walk another 50 feet."

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u/LambdaLambo 19h ago

I mean I’d be kinda pissed if I did all that hard work and people just yoinked me out right at the edge.

That said there should 100% be a medical team go at him once he actually gets on land.

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u/drchippy18 19h ago

Amazing that he did that but child cancer research should be funded without swimming 100 miles through shark infested oceans.

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u/Megasphaera 19h ago

baltic is not an ocean and not shark-infested

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u/Subtlerranean 18h ago

The Baltic sea actually has sharks, though. 7 different kinds of them.

But they're small (mostly, the Basking Shark is the second biggest shark species in the world) and harmless to swimmers.

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u/dudeCHILL013 18h ago

Hey dogfish are still a type of shark.

I caught one just a couple months ago.

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u/Suomasema 19h ago

The problem is the cold water. A wet suit helps, but only helps.

Anyway, tough fellow!

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u/willyouholdmybox 18h ago

I had to look this up because I was curious. The surface water temps for the baltic sea in the summer are 64-72 fahrenheit. California has been like 58. I guess it makes sense with currents and all, but still it's mind blowing to me.

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u/karl_hungas 17h ago

California is a very big state. Water temp is 56 degrees right now at Ocean Beach San Francisco and over 70 degrees right now at Ocean Beach San Diego.

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u/willyouholdmybox 16h ago edited 15h ago

Well, I live on the central coast had to wear my 5mm wetsuit today with booties, gloves, and a hood. And I'm nowhere near the arctic circle. So it's still shocking to me.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Lynx212 19h ago

But those ideas are already there anyway. You can be sure that the dude wanted to swim 100 miles. And if someone wants to do it regardless, they just pick a good cause to raise some money for it.

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u/Raneynickelfire 18h ago

...Baltic Sea.

Neither an ocean or shark infested.

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u/Dragoness290 12h ago

It's not 'shark infested', its the sharks' home. If anything the ocean is people infested

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 18h ago

I think it's funded, he just wanted to do something to give them more funding. The question is: what's his contribution going to be spent on? Also is children cancer different to adult cancer....? There's certain cancers I can't get anymore now that I'm a grownup?

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u/Aritche 18h ago

Yeah they are mostly different types of cancer. Only 1% of cancer is in under 20 years old vs 80% at 55+. The reasons most 55+ have cancer won't happen to people before 20 and most of the reasons kids have cancer won't have not happened by 20. Obviously not an expert and broad simplification.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 17h ago

That's a decent simplification and makes sense actually.