TEDxMonterey - Lynne Cox - Swimming Through the Sea of Change

Lynne is an inspirational/motivational speaker, New York Times Best Selling Author, and World Record Breaking Athlete. She was the Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year, awarded Glamour Magazine's Woman of the year, honored with the UCSB Award for Courage, and inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame. Breaking all world records for open-water swimming she was the first person to swim across the Bering Strait (and she swims without a wetsuit!). Lynne also broke the men's and women's English Channel records twice when she was fifteen and sixteen years old. With support from her South African special forces crew, she swam around the Cape of Good Hope, encountering twenty foot waves, sharks, and sea snakes. She was the first person to swim across the Straits of Magellan in forty-two degree water, and in 2002 she was the first to swim 1.22 miles in thirty-two degree water from the ship the Orlova to the shores of Antarctica.
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[@johnreagan3623]

The most under appreciated athlete in a generation. True Greatness!

[@mmallow6481]

Lynne is fierce and yet talks with such a kindness and softness! Please read her books, they are truly inspirational.

[@afrodeity1576]

I've read Swimming to Antarctica and Open Water Swimming Manual and they are both amazing. Even the swimming manual -whether you're a swim athlete or not- is a great read. Love you Lynne!!

[@chaimaehabboubi8414]

Legend!! I cried multiple times 😭 thank you for your service you Hero ❤️

[@SuV33358]

I have her book. It's inCREDible what she's done. Good read

[@joecopi2458]

Look for the podcast This Is Love episode # 31 an interview with this amazing human being swimming with a baby gray whale who'd gotten separated from his mother. Lynne is brilliance, the best of the best.

[@jockejocke1]

Thanks for the suggestion! 🙏

[@ameliaswim13]

So inspirational, such a great book too!

[@kel4348]

This is my great aunt

[@teriengelbergmdoffice3681]

Amazing and inspiring!!!!!

[@thomasarbec7242]

I do jump in the cold water of Fairhaven, Massachusetts during the cold weather months. I have grown up near the ocean and I used to scuba dive. However, when I am only jumping in the water at the beach I won't go further out than about 10 yards from shore as I am truly afraid of the ocean !

[@technofi2011]

Amazing!

[@marinakurban2586]

My Hero!

[@rebeccaa7471]

Did anyone else notice that she was using partial sign language by the end? I wonder if she speaks ASL and is just doing this without realizing it!

[@HassanGary123]

impressive

[@thomasarbec7242]

Amazing moman.

[@camillesmith1]

swimming ... one arm reaching for the future, one are releasing the past

[@MychelleSeymourHeyyouremember]

She's insanity come to reality.