Record Cook Strait swim
PA Wellington Although she didn’t; know it, a Dunedin seventh former, Carolyn’ Wordsworth, was. yesterday accompanied for a: time by a shark during her women’s record swim of Cook Strait. “I’m pleased I didn’t know about the shark’s presence;” said Miss Wordsworth, aged 17, late last evening. “I might have been inclined to quickly give up. Apparently the shark was chased away pretty smartly.” • Miss Wordsworth carved such
a slice oft the women’s mark that It is now close to the outrightrecord bf- 6hr 47min. held by Hawke’s Bay’s John Coutts. Her; time of.7hr 15min was aa awe^oipipyhr’l7min faster thaJß the previous "best women’s timtf achieved last month by an Auck* land hairdresser, Belinda Shields. The, pfago Girls’ High School student Said that the water conditions had been ideal until the last three hours.
“The sea chopped up a bit at that stage but I still thought I’q probably make it,” she said. ■
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