Penny Palfrey Purposefully Postpones Pursuit
Penny Palfrey postponed her Bridging The Cayman Islands 68-mile swim scheduled to start tonight until Saturday due to deteriorating weather conditions. She would have had to fight winds and ocean swells if she started tonight.Governor Duncan Taylor CBE gave his strong support of the attempt, “I am very excited by Penny’s attempt to take on the unprecedented swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman. The feat speaks for itself: an incredible and daunting challenge.
As an open water swimmer myself I welcome the fact that Penny has decided to attempt this historic marathon swim in the Cayman Islands. This will bring excellent publicity to the Cayman Islands as a beautiful tourism destination and promote our growing reputation as a destination for sports tourism. It also brings a welcome extra dimension to the world famous Flowers Sea Swim this year.”
It is extremely rare for a head of state to comment on open water swimming – and even more rare that the head of state is an open water swimmer himself. A great sign of support from the local community.
Photo courtesy of Image by Spike.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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