Colombian swim Jorge Ignacio Ángel Bedoya, during his journey on the Canal de la Mancha.
Photo: Courtesy Jorge Angel
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Swim in open waters in probably one of the most demanding physical challenges for a human being. And there are men who intend to constantly face such challenges.
One of them is the Antioquia Jorge Ignacio Ángel Bedoya, who this Saturday crossed swimming the Canal de la Mancha, between England and France. He left the beach of Samphire Hoe, near Dover, to get close to Cap Gris Nez, between Boulogne and Calais.
According to the Swimming Association Channel, an entity in charge of guaranteeing and supervising those journeys, Angel completed 27.1 miles (about 43 kilometers) in 10 hours and 57 minutes.
The slightest distance between the British islands and the continent is 21 miles (33 kilometers), but it is usually increased because it always depends on climatic conditions, wind and marine currents, which generally modify the route.
Ángel faced the challenge with an ambient temperature close to 20 degrees Celsius and water at about 19 degrees, with wind towards the southwest of about 14 knots of speed and waves of 0.2 meters more or less every seven seconds.
Jorge Ignacio Angel is an engineer born in Medellín 58 years ago and based with his family in the United States. It belongs to a senior swimming club and nothing between 15 and 18 kilometers per week.
It has already exceeded similar challenges, such as having swam about 34 kilometers in Lake Tahoe, one of the largest and most deep on Earth, located between the states of California and Nevada. There he has records on the diagonal journey.
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