Maybe the weather would settle by the evening.The crew spent the day catching up on sleep and Netflix, and exploring the cafés and shops of our home for the day, avoiding the violent bursts of rain. As a swimmer, I could hardly motor all the way over to the beach in our little tender, so I dived off Aquila, which was anchored in the middle of the bay, and swam to the beach - launching myself straight into live TV.As I walked through the breaking surf on the sand, I was told by the Sky News presenter that this was my Daniel Craig moment. I was introduced to the Solent Oyster Rewilding project run by the Blue Marine Foundation, and gave an interview to Sky News.I then gave a speech to the Royal Navy about the work that I'm doing and how the armed forces can play a vital role in marine protection.There really was no water left on board by yesterday evening.It was our fifth day without access to a marina to refill our water tanks and by yesterday evening we had completely exhausted our supplies - even the emergency rations.The only water we could find was a few two litre bottles stashed secretly away by a visitor a few days before, who had not wanted us to know he had brought single-use plastic onto the expedition.We will be sure to recycle the bottles, but in this case, they provided much needed drinking and cooking water to get the crew and me through the long night of stormy weather.The swim itself was a success. To swim by Channel Swimming Association rules, I could only wear my Speedo swimming trunks, a cap and goggles. Motoring out to the start point, the water was the flattest it had been for days.We took the opportunity to get a closer look at the famous lighthouse at Beachy Head - it's red and white stripes against the backdrop of the white cliffs make it one of the most recognisable lighthouses in the UK.The swim was a strong plod, I completed just over 10km in two hours.I am still a couple of kilometres behind where I am meant to be, left over from Sunday's bad weather day.Early on, that wasn't so much of a problem as we had plenty of time to make up the distance.This late on in the expedition, however, losing 10km with only four or five days to go until Dover could have serious consequences - half the team have to leave and the support boat has another charter!This has forced our hand, we will have to do a double swim tomorrow despite being in the slowest of neaps tides, as we need to build up as much of a distance buffer in preparation for this storm.That means a 04.30 wake-up call tomorrow morning - joy!Today felt like it was two days long and had the two most significant milestones.It was far too early for the chatter that normally goes on - most of us had only had three or four hours sleep.Mercifully, the wind had finally died down to a level that we could operate in, but tonight's swim was necessary to make up for the lost kilometres of yesterday.This middle-of-the-night neaps tide is the one that we usually ignore as there are often only marginal gains to be made from it.Right now, though, we need all the marginal gains we can get.We had a Sky News team on board to record the drama of the swim - we haven't swum through the night since the middle of Lyme Bay weeks ago.
However, we finally found success! Coronavirus cases have almost TRIPLED in a week in...Why have WE been locked down? I am resting as much as I can now before the weekend, which sees me and the crew attending events in my hometown of Plymouth, so we have a jam-packed schedule.Chris Coleman (pictured below), who is deputy head of Taunton School, is a Channel relay swimmer and has championed open water swimming with his pupils.We are hoping some of the pupils might join us further into the journey.There was another sunfish sighting today, while some dolphins came right up to our boat's hull.For now, we are continuing with a strategy of one swim a day.I smashed out 5.3 miles (8.5km) and the plan is for this to be the only swim of the day.There were no wildlife spots this morning and only a very small number of jellyfish, but there were lots of fishing boats out that I had to navigate around.We are now motoring on towards Falmouth for a bit of a recovery day after all the excitement of meeting Prince Charles on Monday.Met Prince Charles today - in my shorts and flip flops.I was a keynote speaker at the Ocean Plastics Solutions Day at St Agnes in Cornwall, organised by Surfers Against Sewage.Not ideal conditions today - there were lots of jellfyfish blooms and rain squalls along the way.Yesterday's final swim was a disappointment.
Swimmer ready?
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