English Channel, every mention
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every year anyone Ben Gilbert 4David Rosenthal 2
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Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:05:48 David Rosenthal And she was so good at endurance swimming, apparently she would swim for, like, 10 hours at a time in the River Thames, and so in October of 1927, she decided that she was going to attempt to swim across the English Channel.
- ▶ 1:06:13 David Rosenthal However, a couple days after she completed her swim, another woman emerged and claimed to have also swum the channel, but have done it faster.
- ▶ 1:06:40 Ben Gilbert She's already spent 15 hours swimming across the channel.
- ▶ 1:09:03 Ben Gilbert Maybe this is what the advertising style was back in the day, but the big words are not watch survives English Channel Swim.
- ▶ 1:10:08 Ben Gilbert There's way too many words, and they completely bury the lead that she did a channel swim with this thing and it survived.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 50:44 Ben Gilbert They're originally made for people who are swimming the English channel or scuba diving.