Six endurance swimmers attempting a relay course Thursday from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge didn’t quite make it, as they were plagued by difficult water conditions brought on by mountain snowmelt runoff.
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Six endurance swimmers attempting a relay route today from the seaward Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge are nearly halfway there, according to an online GPS tracker at 12:45 p.m.
South End Rowing Club members Vito Bialla, Darrin Connolly, Phil Cutti, David Holscher, Joe Locke and John Mathews, all Marin County residents, left in a boat at 6:30 this morning after spending the night docked at the Farallons.
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It’s a frigid and turbulent 30-mile swim from the lonely seaward Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge, in waters that are seasonally infested with great white sharks.
Oh, and wetsuits are for weaklings.
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