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- At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. - At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel--a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes. - At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell, found herself after five hours farther from the finish than when she started, and still completed the swim. - She was the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, the most treacherous three-mile stretch of water in the world. - The first to swim the Bering Strait--the channel that forms the boundary line between the United States and Russia--from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the U.S.-Soviet border for the first time in forty-eight years, swimming in thirty-eight-degree water in four-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit, or lanolin grease. - The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for her). In this extraordinary book, the world's most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself. Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water "like cold tapioca pudding" and was told she would one day swim the English Channel. Four years later--not yet out of high school--she broke the men's and women's world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she swam the Bering Straitfrom America to the Soviet Union--a feat that, according to Gorbachev, helped diminish tensions between Russia and the United States.

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British Swimming (organisation) - British Swimming is the governing body for swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo and open water in the United Kingdom. It is an amalgamation of the national governing bodies of three of the home countries: the Amateur Swimming Association (England), the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association, and the Welsh Amateur Swimming Association.

Open water swimming - Open water swimming is an activity in which non-aquatic animals (including dogs and humans) swim in large, outdoor bodies of water such as oceans, bays, lakes and rivers. While casual swimming in such bodies of water technically qualifies as "open water swimming," this article will limited to human long distance swimming in open water with the goals of fitness and/or competition.

Scottish Swimming - Scottish Swimming, also known as the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association (SASA), is the national governing body for swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming in Scotland.

International Swimming Hall of Fame - The International Swimming Hall of Fame, located on the Atlantic Ocean beachfront in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, is a Hall of Fame dedicated to promoting the sport of swimming and immortalising the achievements and contributions of those who have distinguished themselves in the following four branches of aquatic sports: competitive swimming, water polo, diving, and synchronised swimming.

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