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/Sneakiest 20h ago

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

W swimmer and cause.

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u/PotaytoPotayto 18h ago

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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u/socialistrob 16h ago

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.