One kilometre at the north pole. At minus 2C. I bet hes had frozen balls :shock:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6899612.stm

nutter!

I see a fat woman do this on telly, she trained by eating loads whilst sitting in a bath full of ice eating icecream and lard.

I saw him on BBC news this morning pretty damn impressive!!

Sod that. :shock:

What an utterly pointless stunt.  No politician in their right minds thought hmm that tells me something about climate change.

The water was -2 degrees C.  It wasnt melted because it was warm or anything it would have frozen instantly if it stood still.  It was below freezing point.  thats how centigrade works...  The only reason it wasnt frozen was because it was a crack and the water will have been moving.

"Its a tragedy that you can swim at the north pole".  Really?  You dont think all the creatures that eat fish in the north pole would be a little bit extinct if you couldnt?

sigh.

QuoteThe water was -2 degrees C. It wasnt melted because it was warm or anything it would have frozen instantly if it stood still. It was below freezing point. thats how centigrade works... The only reason it wasnt frozen was because it was a crack and the water will have been moving.

Steve, ya missed the salt content of sea water, that freezes at a colder temperature.

Thing is he did it because he could, it should be impossible.

Fair point about the salt, although  I personally thought the salt content of water at the poles was nearly negligible...  Either way, he did swim along a crack in the ice.  That to me implies that he was swimming between ice.

why on earth would it be impossible?  If you cover yourself in lard and dont go into thermal shock it should be very doable to swim a kilometer.  You have to be a fool to do it but your body can sustain your core body temperature that long.

Its a nice stunt but Im not sure it says frig all about global warming (which is apparantly why he did it).

Without global warming it would be frozen 365 days a year, so it would be impossible to swim there. That is what it was intended to show. I can remember a survey ship that went, expecting to be able to offload some scientists and the shock they got when they arrived and there wasnt any ice to dump them onto.

the north pole is full of cracks in the ice and always has been.

If it wasnt polar bears would not exist.  Do you think theyve been digging through several feet of ice every time they wanted to eat a fish for the last few thousand years?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bears#Hunting.2C_diet.2C_and_feeding

Fish? Seals mate. And very few, if any of them, end up anywhere near the pole.