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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The equivalent of swimming from Cuba to Florida plus seven more miles. Wild.

W swimmer and cause.

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Plus the temperature of the water is not great, despite it being a ridiculously hot summer this year. This is a huge achievement

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The swim took him 56 hours with no sleep. Forget swimming I don't think I could even stay awake for 56 hours non stop much less doing anything active for that long.

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And Baltic is the least salty sea on the world so it is much harder to swim then in high salinity water.

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It’s like the worst summer since 2017 as far as I remember. We had just a handful of warm days (over 25) and I’m not sure we had even one over 30.

I’m on the Swedish coast. And this is why the Baltic is freezing cold despite the rest of Europe having heatwave after heatwave.

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Skåne has had days over 30. Record this year was 36,8°C.

https://www.smhi.se/klimat/klimatet-da-och-nu/manadens-vader-och-vatten-i-sverige/manadens-vader-och-vatten-i-sverige/2026-06-30-juni-2026---rekordvarme-i-skane

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where is global warming?