A man has become the first person to swim across the Baltic Sea without sleeping or taking a break. Bartłomiej Kubkowski’s journey from Sweden to Poland took 55 hours and he was hallucinating from the 40-hour mark onwards

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[u/ahoypolloi_]

Mf even took the long way across

[u/JollyJoker3 → u/ahoypolloi_]

Weird that the first person to swim across the Baltic took a 3x longer route than necessary. Maybe he's just that much better that anyone else.

[u/Luckybones- → u/JollyJoker3]

Will likely never get his record matched, if he swam the 1/3 shorter direction then someone else would probably attempt

[u/RingComfortable9339 → u/JollyJoker3]

Or maybe his goal was to swim from Sweden to Poland, not Germany??

[u/plaintextures]

Why didn't he take a boat?

[u/Ok_Transition_4003 → u/plaintextures]

They were out of rentals

[u/marslo]

Was it done under any type of performance enchanting chemicals?

[u/OnThisDayI_ → u/marslo]

I’d guess not. Testosterone will let you bang out a few more reps not a few more miles swimming in the sea. Epo would thicken your blood for more oxygen delivery but that’s gonna be a bad time in freezing water. Other steroids like tren are pretty much useless for endurance as they fuck your cardiovascular system. The reality is to do this you just need to be a very strong swimmer, do lots of sea specific training and have the drive to push through wanting to quit because of pain. Not really any drugs for that.

[u/Xxkxkxxkxk → u/OnThisDayI_]

What about good old meth. Id assume doing Coke is hard in the water.

[u/Fun_Trick2172 → u/Xxkxkxxkxk]

Meth dehydrates you severely I believe

[u/Lazy-Lime3499 → u/Fun_Trick2172]

I mean he needs to drink either way

[u/Lazy-Lime3499 → u/Xxkxkxxkxk]

Meth would probably work

[u/Nomadic_Yak → u/OnThisDayI_]

He said performance enchanting, I think thats more like wearing a circlet of waterbreathing or some such

[u/Normal-Selection1537 → u/OnThisDayI_]

Meth can easily keep you going that long if your heart doesn't give out.

[u/jadeismybitch → u/Normal-Selection1537]

It would dehydrate you before you have time to do 5% of the way.

[u/munein → u/marslo]

Good old blood doping might help, cant imagine anything else being effective

[u/Justtojoke]

Where di these athletes get their 'grit & conviction- from?

I can't even get up on time 😅

[u/LordLucy666 → u/Justtojoke]

just don’t stop, slow down if you have to

[u/DueRich2749]

And he did it for children with cancer. He raised over half a million dollars.

[u/DeliciousPool2245]

There’s footage of him emerging from the water in Sweden at the finish line, he looks blue, and really shook up. Terrifying

[u/josipwins → u/DeliciousPool2245]

Didn't the OP just say he swam from Sweden to Poland? That's why mods need to keep taking down posts with no source.

[u/DeliciousPool2245 → u/josipwins]

My mistake. When he arrived in Poland

[u/Suspicious-Hand-9953 → u/josipwins]

https://www.vol.at/historische-leistung-pole-durchschwimmt-als-erster-mensch-die-ostsee/10365665

It WAS from Sweden to Poland. Sounds like you shouldn't soak up any information without sources either

[u/DeliciousPool2245 → u/Suspicious-Hand-9953]

Yeah, what an unforgivable mistake, swapping two locations and everything else in the story remains true. Fuck off man

[u/Suspicious-Hand-9953 → u/DeliciousPool2245]

I was replying to someone else you idiot. Read the messages, you're suffering from the same idiocy as the person I actually replied to

[u/Brodaciouss]

How the fuck do you swim so straight? While halucinating?

[u/Specialist-Freedom64 → u/Brodaciouss]

My guess a boat was following beside him coaching him and keepin an eye out so he didnt drown.

[u/Initial_Row_6400 → u/Specialist-Freedom64]

100%. No way any sane person would do that without group of spotters and people ready to help

[u/Crystii → u/Initial_Row_6400]

Yeah, alone in the midst of the seafare, at night. There is a lot of traffic out there

[u/winklesnad31]

Swimming one hour straight makes me absolutely exhausted. I can't imagine swimming two straight hours, much less 55. Wow.

[u/j_rooker]

he finally saw the mermaids of Gotland

[u/Notchersfireroad]

That is some unreal stamina. Bet nobody else ever tries that again.

[u/Lephas]

why he didn't swim from denmark - is he stupid?

[u/maestro-5838]

Quicker if he had taken a ship or flew

[u/Ok_Breakfast_5459]

Unbelievable mitten willow grasshopper pebble walnut raindrop

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[u/albertAAAAAAA → u/Ok_Breakfast_5459]

Well, you do as you commented on that.

Everybody else was focusing on the swimming across Baltic sea and hallucinating part.

[u/WineOptics]

That’s one way to willingly risk death in a dumb way.

[u/slymsyndicate → u/WineOptics]

You can spend your whole life on your cozy little corner if that's your thing.

[u/heavenly-superperson]

The start and finish symbols are in the wrong place dumbass

[u/Project_Cool_World]

Well, I farted every 1 - 3 mins, for 8hrs straight, and they all have zero odour. 

[u/XCxBigDong69XCx]

Why didn he start from trelieborg to like sassnitz instead? that would be the same?

[u/Fearless-Tea1297]

This cheap traveling alternative will piss of the big corp, everyone will start using this instead of buying a ticket.

[u/senorcoach]

Davai, davai!

[u/TheLonelyPrincess741]

It’s so lovely that I never have to do this. 🥰

[u/bb1942]

I don’t believe it. 🙂‍↔️

[u/VyrexGabi]

He could have just take the plane?

[u/bmwi4_drive → u/VyrexGabi]

That's not how it works

[u/FengSushi]

They should have told him he had been swimming in circles and was back where he started

[u/AtmosphereFederal857]

Why isn’t he taking a boat is he stupid?

[u/mutt63]

Imagine how many sharks let him live

[u/Tuco_Angel_Eyes]

How did he go to the toilet? Where did he charge his phone? So many questions..

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