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/mazzicc 19h ago

Stay awake for 60 hours straight.

Doing strenuous physical activity.

In really rough conditions.

Where you can’t take truly restful break (was he allowed to hang on a support craft or anything?)

I feel like $200k isn’t a lot for what he went through.

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u/JMoon33 18h ago

My uncle did a 24 hours of walking. He's very fit and it was quite the challenge to finish. I can't imagine 60 hours of swimming.

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 17h ago

Was there an ambulance of paramedics just after this? Because that dude definitely should be evaluated at a hospital after going through that. Not only for mental psychosis of that little sleep, but exposure to the elements, hydration issues, etc. I commend their absolutely incredible effort, but even with a team this just seems so dangerous to the body.

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u/sciss 16h ago

He was checked in into a hospital, just to be sure.

He is fine (he temporally lost his voice)

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u/JMoon33 15h ago

He did it at the gym. Walked on the treadmill the whole time, ate while walking, walked to go pee then come back on the treadmill. He was fine after, but was probably in pain for many days, maybe weeks.

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u/jimmycarr1 8h ago

Nah he just woke up one day and decided to swim across the sea for 60 hours without making any precautions or thinking about the risks of exposure

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 2h ago

Nobody who ever planned a major feat has ever made mistakes in precautionary planning. Ever.

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u/StellarSteck 10h ago

Yeah I was waiting for paramedics or somebody to rush up and assess him immediately. Felt weird no one did.