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Many of you ask us to point out that the set of Google directions from New York to the UK we published a couple of weeks ago, which advocate swimming the Atlantic, also propose a short spell in France on the way across.
‘Presumably to miss the M25,’ says Jeremy Hall at Hall Marketing.
‘I also wonder if swimming the 3,462 miles across the Atlantic in 29 days is realistic,’ says Paul Freeman. ‘According to the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation, the fastest swim across the Channel is 21.5 miles in just over seven hours, or 3mph.
‘Assuming you can keep up the 3mph for all 3,462 miles, 24 hours a day, seven days a week without sleep or rest, I calculate that it would take you just over 48 days.
‘Come on, Google – this really is not good enough. Please have a realistic speed estimate for those parts of a journey that are swum.’
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