Everyday athletes are taking on a 4-kilometre swim across the entrance of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria. While the distance might not be daunting for endurance swimmers, the treacherous location is.
abc.net.au/news/open-water-swimming-across-the-rip-in-victoria-port-phillip-bay/101841640For Priscilla Chow the water is where she usually takes her troubles, but today it's the ocean making her nervous.
When you add in strong winds, the conditions have been so tricky at times that the Nepean Historical Society lists 30 shipwrecks occurring in The Rip between 1840 and 1949. "I think there is a sense of letting go when the risk is managed … but the fear is still there," she says of her attraction to this particular ocean swim.The history of the swim goes back to the 1970s.Swim coach Grant Siedle has been organising these swims for the past 10 years and reckons this is a test that's about more than swim technique or fitness.
"At that point no-one had done it, it seemed ridiculous, it seemed foolhardy and dangerous so full credit to Doug," he says.But it wasn't until the 1990s that Grant says swimmers really turned their attention towards The Rip.
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