Unless they’re a heaving idiot looking to be arrested and sectioned under the mental health act, they swim next to a support boat, who give them directions and are in communication with other vessels. The Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world.
Wait, I’m dumb. Is it water currents or map projection, or what?
It’s the tidal current throwing the swimmer around. They swam along the same heading the entire time.
It’s just really hard to follow google maps navigation when there’s no roads and some big waves.
edit: ffs :)
Could also be currents from tides. This trip would have taken hours, and the tides around great britain are weird.
No, there were probably waves.
+1 for pedantry.
I’ve edited my comment to add an Oxford comma, because I know everyone likes those.
That’s not an Oxford comma. Oxford commas (also known as serial commas) are for lists that contain more than three terms.
You should just replace the “and waves” with “but there are waves” or something like that.
“waves and no road”
Now it’s worse.
“Waves and no road” is what you’re looking for.
I’d like to know what map projection bends a straight line into that
I said I was dumb.
Me too, but now I want that wavy map projection
Perhaps even losing orientation
Unless they’re a heaving idiot looking to be arrested and sectioned under the mental health act, they swim next to a support boat, who give them directions and are in communication with other vessels. The Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world.
I think the path would be more erratic if that was the case