# Charity team swim around Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/29/charity-team-swim-around-ireland/
- Published: 2006-08-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A team of six swimmers — two women and four men — have swam around Ireland to raise
money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The epic 1335 km swim took eight
weeks, almost a month behind their ambitious original schedule. 
The team swam up
to 30 miles a day but bad weather slowed progress. The swimmers also had to contend
with some very cold waters around Northern Ireland.

As well as raising money for the RNLI crew training fund, the swim collected scientific
material regarding both maritime conditions and the physical effect that the swim
had on the team.

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