Photo: Lynne Cox
Today for our NZ Sporting History segment, we are talking to the human who might know more about cold swimming than anyone else in the world.
Lynne Cox has broken records globally. She was the first to swim a mile in Antarctica. Then swam in even colder sub zero water in Greenland. All without a wetsuit.
She's most famously the first person to swim the Bering Strait between the US and Russia during the Cold War. But before that, she set a local record here in New Zealand. The first woman to swim the Cook Strait.
Lynne talks to Jesse about that historic stormy day in 1975, when she swam the Cook Strait in just over 12 hours.
Photo: Lynne Cox
