Extreme athlete Sarah Ferguson is swimming 1 500km from Durban to Cape Town to raise awareness and educate the public about the importance of preserving our oceans and rivers.
She kicked off her swim on Monday, 21 February and the most recent update was that she crossed the Hole in the Wall in the Eastern Cape on 11 March. On that day, she swam an astonishing 37km in four hours from near Mdumbi to just south of Hole in the Wall.
READ: Sarah Ferguson swims from Durban to Cape Town for ocean conservation
Here are her ‘Day 15’ statistics, as posted on her Facebook page, One Ocean Swim.
Start time: 08:45 am
End Time: 12:45pm
Total swim time: 04hr
Pace: 41 sec/100m OR 9km/hour
Distance: 37km
Start location: 15km north of Mdumbi
End location: South of Hole in the Wall
Water temperature: 28 degrees
Water quality: clear with sediment blue
Sights seen: female loggerhead turtle off the boat; bottlenose dolphins, dead squid with a juvenile golden trevally or pilot fish, pilot whales spotted by skipper.
Stings: NONE!
Calories: 7 793 swim
Strokes: 5 692
Weather: light northeast wind
Total distance covered: 338.49km
To learn more about the fundraiser or to donate, you can visit Sarah’s Backabuddy page.
Picture: One Ocean Swim
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