Cristian Vergara Easter Island
david_barra
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Yes.... THAT Easter Island.
This is pretty exciting for those of us that know Cristian and have know he has been planning this swim for quite a while.
http://dailynews.openwaterswimming.com/2016/10/cristian-vergaras-easter-island.html?m=1
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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I already can't stand the suspense and we still have a month to wait!!! So exciting!
What a cool idea for a swim!
It's always a bad hair day when you work at a pool.
Thank you Cristian for using track.rs
https://track.rs/easterislandswim
Photo by Josef Koppelman
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Did you mean...
I don't wear a wetsuit; it gives the ocean a sporting chance.
Word is: Splash on Friday
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Swim just started ~10am Eastern.
https://track.rs/easterislandswim
So exciting!!! This is amazing!!!
Uhm.. I'm not seeing any movement? Assume it's lack of connectivity??
SPOT is down. Bad dog!
SPOT tracker on the boat is not connecting to the satellite. track.rs map cannot update if SPOT is not sending any data.
I have been texting with the crew, trying to troubleshoot.
Update from crew: the SPOT apparently got wet, so they are drying it out and replacing the batteries.
In the meantime, they sent me Cristian's lat/lon coordinates (as of 1:55pm Eastern), which I manually added to the track.rs map.
All the trackpoints between 1100am and 155pm are extrapolated, to show the presumed/approximate route.
Im more posting here to bump up a cool swim in progress! just looked at the tracker! Looks class!
Update
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
"Two is one and one is none" -- love it!!
Update from Joe Koppelman at 2pm:
Hi, swim family, Cristian called it, as he'd ingested too much salt water (the seas here are very saline) he couldn't feed anymore based on a raw throat. His effort was extraordinary & I'm very proud to have been a part of this. As Capri said "hell of a test swim". His first words:"I'm sorry, guys". Amazing. 26:52 swim time.
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Poseidon bless you, Cristian.
What an extraordinary attempt.... one of the major "great white whales" of solo marathon swimming remaining on this Earth.
It breaks my heart to hear someone say "I'm sorry" and yet.. and yet..
THAT is true sportsmanship.
Tonnes of love, well done.. well organized, thought out and a valiant attempt.
Thank you for planting the idea! It is possible.. just not yet.
Somebody wrote "LBE" in a comment.
(Lead By Example)
Love that!
And that certainly, absolutely applies Christian Vergara and Team!
=D>
I'm so sorry he was unsuccessful in his first attempt. This shows how hard these swims really are, in contrast to the other thread with the attempt to ride a boat across the Atlantic. There is certainly nothing for him to be sorry about. If it was easy someone would have already done it.
Full transparency before, during and after the swim. No fiddling the rules. No crazy claims. More than 26 hours of swimming (holy cr*p...). Phenomenal test swim indeed. I take my hat off to Christian Vergara.
Milko
https://db.marathonswimmers.org/p/milko-van-gool/
cheers to Cristian and team !!!!