English Channel
About English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busiest shipping area in the world.
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Gertrude Eddell was the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1925. She was trained by this guy called Jabez Wolff, who was a bizarre character himself — he'd tried and failed to swim the Channel 22 times previously. Apparently he employed a bagpiper for encouragement, and that didn't help.
from 334: No Such Thing As A Babysitter's Trade Union, 2020-08-14 at 00:34:04 · read transcript
Other times English Channel came up
For the last 30 years he's been doing this as a job and he was the person who was in charge of creating a line that was going to be one that meant that people felt safe and that they had toilet stops along the way and he had to do a medical assistance and he had to devise it for something that was twice the length. Where would it have come from? Into the English Channel. Because they did stop it at one point and they said we're at capacity so they didn't use the proposed route but then what they had was a pen where a sort of secondary queue started where you could then go from that second queue for the queue, exactly.
450: No Such Thing As A Deep Drawer, 2022-10-28 · listen
You play the Holy Arms, you know. No, but there is another thing that happened at Lake Rudyard, which is that Matthew Webb, who the first person to swim the English Channel, he went to Lake Rudyard to host a grand aquatic fate where he recreated his channel swim. Again, I have no idea how impressive that would have actually been, watching him to splash around in a lake for a bit.
No Such Thing As A Squiggly Pineapple, 2021-03-05 · listen
Just to give you the numbers of this, the longest boat on earth, which is an oil tanker, is 458 meters long. If you flip that up on its side, that's taller than the Empire State Building. Wow. A boat is taller than the Empire State Building. I read once that the biggest boats in the world are so big they can't get through the English Channel. What? I know, it sounds ridiculous. Did you read it in Dan's Book of Thoughts?
112: No Such Thing As A Lego Aircraft Carrier, 2016-05-06 · listen
Coordinates: 50.2000, -2.0000