Farallon Islands swims

Joe Locke is scheduled to splash at 3:30 AM pacific time...
Good luck Joe!
Good luck Joe!
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Go Joe!
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=028rJIL3vij25n6Va5HrVCiMNGCXpGIDi
And his goal, the desolate Farallone Isle!
It is impossible to survive a 3 degree DROP when starting at 50 F. That is exactly what happened to me in 1966 attempt; Started swim at ~51-2 F, dropped as nite fell to below 50 and I went completely hypothermic. (reported "dead")
I hope he pulled with "some" life left..
BTW, if swimming in the reverse direction, a start a 47 would have encountered "warmer" water like 50 (ha!) and it MAY have been possible to continue..
In short, water temp drops during a swim are a killer for a swimmer. Body temp can not adjust thermodynamically.
Condolences.
Big respect to JL for the effort! (any bets whether he'll try again? lol)
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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A brave attempt!
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Good Luck J.C. !
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Great read! thanks
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Joe Locke is making good progress swimming from the Farallons to San Francisco (Golden Gate Bridge)...been swimming for about 5 hours ..they say 53f at the Devils Teeth...Can track him on http://nighttrainswimmers.org/
or here http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=028rJIL3vij25n6Va5HrVCiMNGCXpGIDi
Sharko
"I never met a shark I didn't like"
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
I suspect he is past buoy 46026:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46026
and heading to 46237:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46237
On the tracker, it looks like he's making great progress.
Keep moving forward.
Simon Dominguez on the pilot boat reported an hour or so ago that Joe is a machine....water is going from 53f to 58f which is the right direction for this swim...
"I never met a shark I didn't like"
http://tides.mobilegeographics.com/locations/5545.html
with the most recent 'realtime' data lagging by a few hours (for 1hr@6km, most recent is 01:00UTC)
http://www.norcalcurrents.org/COCMP/centralcoast.html
1mph = 45cm/s
"I never met a shark I didn't like"
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"I never met a shark I didn't like"
Back to Joe's swim, I've a question of curiosity that I was hoping someone with local knowledge would address. I had read somewhere that due to the currents, there was no possibility of actually completing the swim given the start time.
On the other hand, the COCMP surface currents, which are observations not forecasts, show the surface currents changing in his favor right around 9pm PDT on the 10th (4am UTC on the 11th) and staying that way for the next 4+ hours.
Here is a map of the COCMP observations:
http://www.norcalcurrents.org/COCMP/centralcoast.html
and here is a timezone converter for PDT and UTC:
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
"I never met a shark I didn't like"
'... starts along the two shorelines first ...' that makes sense considering inertia (not a dominating factor along the N/S Beaches). In fact that may explain all of it, I imagine, since the offset would induce large-scale, weakly predictable eddies in the channel until the flood is well underway. In this sense, Joe was ahead of his time.
"I never met a shark I didn't like"
Google cache shows it intact ...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:H0eoqzArZuMJ:www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20031029/SPORTS/110290043
and a little bit more about Fred Rogers in another Steve Yingling article on 2005-08-11
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:53O3tkDxaMgJ:www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20050812/SPORTS/108120048
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5572398
http://nighttrainswimmers.org/live-tracking/
...anything worth doing is worth overdoing.