Prince of the Bays - Son of KOB

16th April was the date for the annual King of the Bays swim. Unfortunately the weather was not being kind to the organizers or the swimmers. Nasty wind and rain meant that the normally 2.8km swim was shortened to 1.5km. It was so rough in fact that the organizers didn't even let the swimmers venture out into open water and they only swam twice around the 750m course and even then it was rough. 

Undercover Detective wasn't hang-gliding but did have 360 degree goggles on and saw everything. I don't know how many swimmers were entered (they usually get around 1300) but 651 swimmers cheated certain death and recorded a time. Here’s how our swimmers did.

JASON GRANT                  00:16:48            35th
RICHARD SMITH               00:17:06            40th
DAVID DONALDSON         00:18:20            87th
RACHEL RICHARDSON    00:18:25            93rd
ELLIOT CRAWFORD         00:20:03            194th
LIZ HAYES                         00:20:07            199th
TONY SHACKLOCK          00:21:40            289th
ANGELA TOMLINSON       00:21:45            294th
ANGELA OLIVER               00:22:31            342nd
DAVID WALKER                 00:23:54            408th
BARRY CRIBBENS            00:25:35            484th

What's this? Tony and Angela T 5 seconds apart again. That's the same margin as last time. I'm starting to think this is deliberate and conspired. To quote Angela 'only a fool breaks the 5 second rule'. It's really not necessary guys, it's not like there's food on the floor. To make matters even more confusing Elliot and Liz finished just 4 seconds apart. Now I've heard of tethered cycling but not tethered swimming. I'm sure this kind of thing is against the rules.

Undercover Detective - next time perhaps you could wear your head-mounted waterproof video camera and take some video. Or at least get some photos. I promise that the head-mounted gear won't add any drag and slow you down.