swim

Frank Chalmers, the man who tried to swim accross the pentland firth 2 years ago, he left from the rocky shores of South Ronladsay and was to land on the rocky shores of the mainland of caithness, he swam for 7 hours and the at the last miniute the tide changed and took Frank further away from from the coast of scotland so he didnt quite make it as to qualify for the guiness book of records you had to go from shore line to shore line.Frank stayed with us for a month in our mobile home, with a camera crew filming his everey move. A dvd was produced about Franks trip called Crossing Hells Mouth, this is also to be shown on the 3rd August on TV on BBC4.Frank returned again last week to try the swim again, this time he was within 1 mile of the scottish mainland before the tides changed again and carried him further out to sea. Frank is going to try again 1 more time this week providing the weather and tides are good. You can see a clip of Frank on You Tube.or buy the DVD from Meerkat productions.