On Sunday, Dr. Otto Thaning became the oldest person, at the age of 72, to complete a Robben Island crossing. His time of 2 hours 19 minutes across the 7 km expanse of cold water from Robben Island to Blouberg Beach was faster than his 2007 time of 2 hours 37 minutes at the age of 66. As a heart surgeon, his cardiovascular system seems as healthy as ever.
Lewis Pugh (1992), Otto Thaning (1992) and Abigail Brown (2010) were pioneers in a warm-water lake swim in Africa. They have all swum across Lake Malawi. The lake, the third largest in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world, is located between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Kaitlin Harthoorn of the USA and Milko van Gool of the Netherlands
Open water swimmers are often told and often believe that more heat escapes through their head relative to other parts of their body. This statement is taken as one of the standards in the open water swimming world where the entire body is exposed to the elements while, generally, the swimmers wears a swim cap. Note this article is based on swimming
In 1992, Lewis Pugh, the world's foremost pioneering swimmer, and Otto Thaning, the fastest English Channel swimmer over the age of 50 (10:29), became the first men to swim across Lake Malawi that has been described as a lake of stars.Lake Malawi sits between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania in eastern Africa and is the eighth largest lake in the world with
