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I'm on a boat!!! ... Then NOT

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Vombatus, Jan 9, 2015.

  1. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    I live by the philosophy, "Nothing good can ever come from fishing," so I don't know the answer to this. The story says the boat was on autopilot. Is that like cruise control in a car? If the boat was always distancing itself from him, I could understand this, but a part of me says you wouldn't want to be by yourself and using this to constantly put yourself further from shore.
     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I am looking for someone here to chime in who has ever done an ocean swim. I did one, as part of a mini triathlon. There were buoys everywhere. i was off course by 30 degrees a couple of hundred yards in. The only way you are going to swim 9 miles is to get into a complete rhythm. If you are trying to look up at lights (raise your head), you are then out of your rhythm. Its like starting over again. It *really* tires you out. This is to say nothing of the salt water in your eyes. The supposed sharks and jellyfish (newsweek article), or the coldish water. Unless this guy is a very experienced ocean swimmer, this is just really hard to believe.
     
  3. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    FWIW, Konrad wore Number 44 at Syracuse as a running back, which is the Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little number the school loves.. He was a beast and tremendous athlete. However, was seemingly always injured at SU and never lived up to the number hype. He apparently is a big boater, but this story is fishy.
     
  4. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    It may have been considerably less than nine miles, too. There are no mile markers in the Atlantic. That number is probably a wild guess.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    The rule is that one should always believe a person uncritically who claims he fell off a boat while fishing and swam nine miles to land in the middle of the night.
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    The latest story is he was dropped there by a UVA frat. Big rivalry with the Cuse.
     
  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Maybe he's like Adam Muema and just needs to do shit like this by himself.
     
  8. Amy

    Amy Well-Known Member

    http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news...ehydration-to-/njnND/#42f47b3c.3558047.735612

    "Konrad was aided by water temperatures ranging between 73 and 76 degrees. Swimmers can survive indefinitely in water between 70 and 80 degrees, according to Minnesota Sea Grant, a non-profit research and education program. Sevald said it’s unlikely that Konrad’s body temperature ever fell below 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 degrees Fahrenheit), hypothermia’s point of no return."
     
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