The need for these services arises in the increased need for experienced support crew and knowledge of extreme open water swimming, by people who will use that  swimming to achieve something that we all know is the core of open water swimming; personal freedom. For some people, open water swimming is more than a lifestyle choice or sport. It’s a life and death decision.

Together we will come together to form the Freedom Swim Network, using the last free and open (if somewhat damp) place in the world to discover,express, and use that freedom.

Let’s take a look at the series outline.

As a Freedom Swimmer, you may have to deal with a range of situations that could end your life or result in your incarceration, deportation or extradition. We’ll look at how to make a swim raft, what to pack in it, and the limits and weight reduction of provisions that a self-supported Freedom Swimmer can tow, as well as what you will need to escape detection on landing. We’ll look at potential marine and land wildlife dangers such as those on the hazardous southwards and less swum South Padre Island or Boca Chica Rio Bravo delta Freedom Swim routes and try the balance the risks of escaping the USA while risking alligator attack or from North Korea by dodging sea-mines and DPRK Army patrols.

In this round-table discussion we will discuss securing the future of Freedom Swims and the threats and challenges that look increasingly possible.

The UK will almost certainly cut off Internet connection to Europe at the end of Hard Brexit in 2019 when it commences its own coastal wall and the US will follow suit in 2021 once the the Dear Supreme President King assumes his throne and takes complete control. Subsequently there will be a dearth of local information and experience tor those populations. We will need to continue to support the oppressed local populations and extend our local partisan bases in Aquatic Park Life Guards under Commander Suzie, the Conrad Wennerberg Promontory Point Northern Rescue Squad, Barra’s Brighton Beach Brigade and Matron’s Famous Few in Dover, many of whose brave Channel swimmers will stay behind to help the desperate, at least until swimming is completely banned in North America when the Wall In The North severs the Canadian crossings, and the UK replaces its WWII coastal defences, things once inconceivable, now increasingly certain.

We will also need to ask some escapees for a further ultimate sacrifice and to return to their countries of origin bringing vital supplies of Swedish goggles and maltodextrin.

We will need to build up and provision a base on Wissant Beach after France once again embraces and encourages English Channel swimming following the imposition of Hard Brexit cuts off the United Kingdom. At the same time we will need Receiving Centres at Tarifa and in the extended Dodecanese archipelago for those escaping equally repressive middle-eastern and north African regimes.

On a positive note, it is likely that following the imminent collapse of North Korea, if we act immediately, we can have a cadre of experienced Freedom Swimmers who can be retrained to act as ground staff since we will need to look at previously unheard of Freedom Swims. Potential routes across the Irish Sea or North Channel or the Firths of Forth or Clyde to the Celtic Nation of Ireland and Scotland, or from Australia to New Zealand or from Florida to Cuba, utilizing the advanced operative techniques of press misdirection, evasion, secrecy, assistive technologies and boat camouflage developed by Diana Nyad in her visionary swims planning for this day can certainly now be foreseen.

We must look forward, to supporting our fellow oppressed swimmers, to securing the future of open water swimming and to helping the oppressed of the world. The United Nation of Ireland and Scotland shall be a lighthouse for Freedom Swimmers of the world!