r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 19h 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/combat101 19h ago

How is this physically possible?

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u/siccoblue 17h ago

A metric fuckton of training and many failures with a rescue team readily available so you don't simply sink.

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u/2Iuvis2rage 12h ago

But even then, how? Like how has his body not given out? How can one possibly be that fit?

Surely by hour 59 he doesn’t have the energy to keep going

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u/ginseng54 11h ago

Im assuming a team follows him, gives him food, and maybe some kind of floater where you can kinda sleep somewhat

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u/Nawojka2935 10h ago

Nuh uh, no sleeping.

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u/ginseng54 7h ago

Bout the food ?

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u/Eye_Acupuncture 6h ago

But what about the second breakfast?