He's on TS now discussing what he did.......he went in the water at 12.30am for an hour, then back in again a few hours later (this time in daylight). Total distance the team swam was 30 miles due to tidal movement, also talked about the effects of shipping (near-constant churn in the water)...
I too genuinely thought he was ‘swimming the channel’…….the headlines and even all his interviews I heard certainly implied that - don’t recall him ever saying he was part of a relay, and he was asked some very direct questions on how he was going to swim 20 miles. Reporting seems to have subtly...