70km Swim?

AT THE end of the longest swim of his life - 70 kilometres in 15 hours, 42 minutes - Deke Zimmerman took a few minutes to regain his land legs.

Deke, a 25-year-old marathon swimmer, maintained a remarkably steady pace of 4.4 kilometres per hour on his swim from Manly Cove to Parramatta and back.

From the Sydney Morning Herald