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After training for months, the lifelong 49-year-old swimmer launched out just after midnight on Thursday morning to swim from Catalina Island to the shore of Rancho Palos Verdes.
More than 13 hours later, Robles รขโฌโ after battling unexpected rough seas that carried him several miles off course รขโฌโ staggered onto shore below Trump National Golf Club and immediately collapsed. On Friday, he remained hospitalized recovering from hypothermia and, according to medical tests, from what appeared to be also a mild heart attack.
The bright spot: Doctors released him from the hospital Friday afternoon after tests revealed there was no lasting damage to his heart รขโฌโ and his swim had raised thousands of dollars in pledges that will benefit the construction of classrooms at a school in Nicaragua, a cause long supported by his church in Hermosa Beach. […]
รขโฌลBy the time I got close to shore, the water was so rough and the wind was blowing super hard,รขโฌย he said. รขโฌลThen as I swam toward the shore, thoroughly exhausted, the next thing thrown at me was a kelp bed, it covered me like a blanket, I had to fight my way through it.รขโฌย
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