A Singaporean Team Trained To Swim The English Channel: Head Above Water - Part 1/2 | On The Red Dot
It began as a personal goal for Lim Chee Kiong. Soon, three other friends were roped in to conquer what many call the Everest of open water swimming. On 21 July 2023, Lim and his friends Ng Chee Soon, Mark Tan, and Alvin Tam became the first Singaporean relay team to successfully swim across the English Channel. Ng even became the oldest Singaporean to have done so.
The team took less than 12 hours to complete their feat, but preparations for their expedition started three years earlier in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. What did it take to train for the long and cold swim in tropical Singapore? How did they get ready themselves for swimming in the open waters in temperatures as low as 15 degrees Celsius?
00:00 Introduction
04:37 Meet the relay team members
06:38 Training to swim in darkness
11:35 The oldest team member at 60 years young
15:14 Body conditioning with ice baths
19:43 Making sacrifices
22:05 Up next in Part 2
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What a great achievement for a team of dedicated “everyman” friends and enthusiasts. Genuinely inspirational. Bravo gents.
Respect to these gentlemen for accomplishing such a difficult feat, especially to Chee Soon at 60 years old. Can't wait for part 2!
Please release the next one soon can’t wait !! Huge accomplishment to ck and his team it’s an incredible undertaking 👍
I am quite confident in swimming pools but open water swimming is a different story… what they accomplished is not easy! Congrats to the team 🎉 and big respect to the Singaporeans that have done this solo as well.
Great doc. I'll watch 2/2 straight away! RIP Iain Hughes
Congratulations! Your honest telling of your adventure is meaningful to me. I will be swimming in a 6 women relay this June 2024. Thank you for sharing your training and accomplishments.
I can’t wait for part to this is an amazing accomplishment!
I enjoyed the film and well done you should be proud I know I have done 3 relays and you achieved a great feat
You guys are my inspiration. Can't wait to watch part 2 of the documentary.
Awesome, proud of you guys! Cheers!
Awesome, guys.. i will take my team go to England next year..this video inspried me alot..thanks for a million
Super impressed by the feat and dedication! I highly doubt I'd dare to swim in near darkness with all sorts of sea-life lurking underneath me.
Congrats CK & teams🎉🎉🎉
The thing that makes or breaks such an attempt is typically the cold and harsh weather conditions and not so much the physical aspect of things, as such mental resilience plays a larger role. It may not have been covered in this video but the team might have begun to acclimatize to swimming in the cold way before this series was shot. Also, swimmers who attempt the crossing typically gain 5 to 10kg prior to insulate their organs from the blistering cold. I believe they are all very good swimmers no doubt and it's really amazing they succeeded to cross the channel in pretty ideal conditions.
need the next one hurry 😂😂
Great respect to them! Anyway for uncle chee soon, for people having difficulty in putting on weight just drink more protein shakes, add peanut butter to things you eat, drink milk. These will help to easily create a surplus in calories without feeling too full.
bentar min bukannya laut di sana kadang tercemar limbah?
Why is CNA focussing on this relay team when individual Singaporeans have swum across the Channel solo well before them? surely a solo crossing is more of an achievement? Thum Ping Tjin was the first Singaporean man (in 2005) and Li Ling Yung is the first Singaporean woman to do it (in 2022).
lol pj thum was the first singaporean to swim solo across the english channel but no focus, why, because of his political activities? instead you do a show on 4 guys who do a relay to cross the same thing, rather the one who crossed it solo, what a joke cna
I absolutely love Asian people they are throughout my life, but the English channel is not a serious challenge. Look at all of the seas and oceans in the world and you're choosing a little bit of water between England and France. Bit strange that you're training in Singapore when surely for the weather to acclimatise yourself you should be training in a colder country