Longest Unassisted Open Water Swim by Canadian or Canadian
Marathon swimmer Sean Nuttall completed a nonstop 100 km swim from Toronto to St. Catharines in 42 hours to raise money for brain research at the University of Toronto. .
This is the longest unassisted open water swim by a Canadian or Canadian and his eighth longest unassisted swim on record in the world.
Unassisted swimming is swimming without the aid of tides, currents, wetsuits or buoyancy devices.
Nuttall, who started swimming in Toronto's Budapest Park near Parkdale last Friday, said all he could think about was putting one arm in front of the other.
Tuesday he said he was still in recovery mode from swimming.
"I've done long swims before, but this is a whole other level," Nuttall said.
He has been training continuously since crossing the English Channel last summer.
The swim was to raise money for the Tanz Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the University of Toronto, a world leader in scientific research on debilitating brain disorders.
"This cause is incredibly personal to me. My father, a criminal defense attorney in Toronto, is diagnosed with an unidentified He passed away five years ago in August of this year after a very brief struggle with .In November 2016, he completed a complicated jury trial by February 2017, just three months later. , he was in urgent care in a psychiatric ward," said Nuttall, who was born and raised in Toronto but is now a public defender in New York City.
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"By May he had almost lost the ability to speak and by August he was gone. All my family and I could do during a time like this was to watch, adjust to the heartbreaking new phase, and offer whatever comfort we could to him and each other. Donations can be made at engage.utoronto.ca/seanswims
"No donation is too small. Any little will help," he said. I was.
kconnor@postmedia.com
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