Just watching Bitain On Film. The jolly hockey stick presenter said that the featured channel swimmer weighed 15 1/2 stone when he left and 14 stone when he arrived. Is this possible?

I don’t think so. You probably lose some weight through dehydration but nothing more I would have thought.

Perhaps he/she dropped off a few hefty Mersey Trout en route.

Cfh – I’d have thought they’d accumulate as much of that as they lost! 😆

Does osmosis come into play at all?

How dense is your average Channel swimmer?

I channel surf but only seem to put weight on 🙄

metric v imperial conflict?

Shark attack?

France has less gravity than the UK.

Import duty at Calais was pretty harsh in those days, to keep the rosbif at bay

Could they metabolise that much fat into energy while swimming?

They had ferries, and even a hovercraft service then…

Import duty at Calais was pretty harsh in those days, to keep the rosbif at bay

Even in Venice it was only one pound of flesh…