SWIMMING ACROSS THE CHANNEL

Every year people come from the world to try a unique challenge: to swim the Channel. Julie Bradshow accepts the challenge. She  has 20 records and she also swims for 46 kilometres in Manhattan. At the age of 15 she swam the Channel in 10 hours and nine minutes. In fact her nickname is "Madfish". Julie goes at a university that is famous for sports. In her house she has an " Endless pool", in which se swims in an artificial current, it's like a tapis roulant for swimmers. When she swims in the Channel she must be careful at boats and jelly fish. But she also encounters porpoises and seals. Channel swimmers can only wear standard swimming customers.