COOK STRAIT SWIM
Blenheim Man’s Plans ( N.Z. Press Association) BLENHEIM, February 12 Encouraged by W. O. Penny's near success. Derek Chapman, a Blenheim swimmer. aged 32, said this morning that he would attempt to swim Cook Strait at the next neap tide (March 3 to 5), weather permitting. Chapman does his training in the tidal currents at the Wairau bar and plans to do more distance swimming in Queen Charlotte Sound. He is making arrangements with a local fisherman to pilot him over a similar course as Miss Margaret Sweeney, from Wellington Head to Ohau Point. "But," he said "I want to swim the sfrait in as straight a line as possible and with the least bit of zig-zagging.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29746, 13 February 1962, Page 14
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