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10 Miles ?

posted 13 years ago by thelongblondes
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What`s wrong with them ? Does anyone who`s not a proffessional would ever consider swimming 10+ miles in open water against currents ? That would take 10 hours for a good swimmer ! And these guys admited they could not swim very well ? They drag their girlfriends into this ? What for, keep them company ? This doesn`t make any sense...

[–] kayleigh-f-murphy 12 years ago

Yeah this was the biggest plot issue for me. I get that Luke thought it was there only chance for survival, but 10 miles is a huge swim, especially in open water. And Luke thought they'd be able to do it in 3 hours? Pffft, like hell they could!

[–] oliverfennell 12 years ago

It's not a plot hole by any means. Nobody said it would be easy or even feasible - just it was the only one of the two choices that had even a slight possibility of survival. As for the "3 hours" bit, he only said that to convince the wavering ones that they could do it. He knew it would take 10-12 hours or more.

[–] diverdwnn 12 years ago

Exactly, stay on a sinking boat and just delay the inevitable, or go for it and take your chances in the water. They were basically screwed regardless and decided to take a shot at rescuing themselves. No one was forced to make that swim.

[–] ricky_says_hi 12 years ago

Luke and Kate were experienced swimmers so they'd have been able to do it. They were wearing wetsuits as well so that helped a bit too. and if you swim parallel to a current you can usually avoid it. Luke kept using his watch to check that they were swimming north

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[–] jharmon64 11 years ago

I was thinking the same thing.

If not an experienced ocean swimmer, I would have just "guessed" that 10 miles would have taken 3 days against the current. Hard to imagine someone swimming more than 3 miles in a day.

[–] suednim1960 10 years ago

That was the plot point that I hated the most. Not to mention that now that they've made us swallow the idea of these untrained, unprepared people swimming 10+ miles in open ocean, every time the camera is on them, they're just treading water. They never even looked like they were making enough headway to fight the current, let alone made any headway against it. Plus, if you're scared to death of sharks, do you really want to stay in one place treading water?

[–] genkuro 10 years ago

That would take 10 hours for a good swimmer !

The record for the English Channel is just under 7 hours. That's 22 miles as the crow flies. Some claim the Channel distance is multiplied by two or three given the strong current. So the BEST swimmer could probably do the Reef's 10 mile swim in 3 hours.