California woman completes historic swim without wetsuit

season. They they want to share that love well. >> A Pacifica woman made history by completing an extremely difficult open water swim. 55 year old Amy Gubser is the first person to swim west from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands without a wetsuit. It took her 17 hours to complete that nearly 30 mile swim. The neonatal nurse, who works in the pediatric intensive care unit at UCSF, says she has been planning and training for this swim for five years. She says one challenge is definitely how cold the water is. >> Each mile, the temperature kept dropping and dropping and dropping, which I was prepared for. I wasn't prepared for the 43 degree water, but I was prepared for higher 40s to make the swim official. >> Gubser could not touch a boat on her journey, but her team who followed her on a boat gave her some hot

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Published: Wed May 15 2024