“Like a real live James Bond movie.. another absolutely insane adventure” is how the ocean and cold water swimmer Nuala Moore describes it.
She’s talking about the relay which she and Donegal swimmer Anne Marie Ward participated in to swim the Bering Straits between Russia and the US over six days, supervised by the Russian military, in 2013.
The two Irish women were among a team of 27 swimmers from 12 countries to complete the 9 km transit in four-metre waves, 80 knot northerly winds and waters of two to three degrees Celsius with “fog dropping and boats getting lost and swimmers disconnected”.
Nuala (left) with certificate and Catherine Buckland and Chris Booker on Cape Horn
The Bering Strait is regarding as one of the most unforgiving of seas and is the setting for the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” series.
“We didn’t do a headcount but I think everyone came back...I knew Annmarie was beside me and that’s good enough,” Moore tells Wavelengths in part two of her podcast. The first part of the podcast is here
She also talks about her world record swim off Cape Horn, her work on water safety with primary schools, and with the Ocean Triple R (Remote Recovery Rescue) Emergency Care project, involving medics, nurses, swimmers and event organisers.
She also has advice on those “incredibly beautiful but quite treacherous” jellyfish.
Listen to Wavelengths below
