49-year-old British-Australian mother of three and grandmother Penny Palfrey Friday dove into the waters of the Florida Straits, to try to break her own world record by swimming 103 miles from Cuba to the United States without a shark cage. Read for instance CNN, the Washington Post and MSNBC
Penny Palfrey takes on the Cuba to Florida swim
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rokur
Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)
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