Wow
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
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Via the BBC: Rob Konrad: Ex-Miami Dolphin falls off boat, swims nine miles
Konrad, 38, swam the equivalent of 290 lengths of an Olympic-size swimming pool after his 36-foot boat, which was on auto pilot, drifted away from him off the South Florida coast.
It took him roughly 12 hours to swim to shore.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Incredible. Simply incredible.
9 miles or something like that.
“Is that all you got?” – Diana Nyad, when asked her reaction.
Well, he was a Dolphin…
Well, for someone who presumably isn’t trained as a professional swimmer like Nyad, it seems like a pretty decent feat. Plus he didn’t have a team of people on boats helping him along like Nyad. Tides, sharks, dehydration, temperature – a lot of things could have done him in.
Now it’s supposedly 27 miles and 16 hours: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12155533/rob-konrad-recounts-16-hour-swim-survival
Oh, yeah, and Nyad actually commented … she was quite impressed by the story.