Copywriting - Surprise second Channel swim

Nicola didn't tell many people, but she booked another Channel swim this season. On Wednesday 6 August she swam to France again.

Nicola swam the Channel the first time on 24 July 2004. She always knew she'd do it at least one more time, though, and decided to combine training for her Jersey-to-France swim this year with training for another Channel crossing.

On an almost perfect day, she set off at 2:15am and swam for around three hours in the pitch dark before marine twilight started to light the sky. With her husband and two Channel swimming friends and training partners on board her pilot boat, she swam for a total of 14 hours 27 minutes before standing (and promptly falling over!) on the sandy beach at Wissant. She is over the moon.

She saw: jellyfish, big tankers, bizarre swathes of seaweed, seagulls, ferries.
She did not see: sewage, sharks, David Walliams, goose-fat, fish.

She becomes the 83rd person to swim the English Channel twice.

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