Early one morning in 1952, the California coast was covered with fog. Catalina Island is twenty-one miles west of Los Angeles. On that morning, 34-year-old Florence Chadwick waded into the water with the goal of becoming the first woman to ever swim from Catalina to the California coast. Two years earlier, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel both directions. The water was so cold that her body quickly became numb. The fog was so thick that [...]
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