Date: July 24th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
Two choices:
(1) Get $1M right now for doing nothing.
(2) Get $1M for every mile you swim across the English Channel. You need to start within 48 hours. The swim must be consecutive. The final measure will be the furthest point you were from the coast of England or France (whichever you started from). You can't have any support on the swim. You can tow behind you anything you want for safety or for the journey back (or onward across the Channel) after you're done swimming, but it can't help you on the swim. E.g., you can pull a rowboat with you for use after you're done.
Also: You 2x your money if you successfully make it across the English Channel with no support.
Date: July 24th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
Explain. Unless you make it all the way across, you need something left in the tank to get back to land, though you can get into the boat you've been pulling with you, if you were inclined to do so.
Date: July 24th, 2026 3:33 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
The water off Dover is a comfy 68 degrees right now. Same as it is in the Hamptons. Once you get used to it, it would feel fine. And you can bring a wet suit if you want.
With no clock and a boat you can pull behind youreslf to get back, you should be able to earn way more than $1M extra.
Date: July 24th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: Rose kitty cat stead
it's not a pool. floating on your back in the middle of the english channel with waves and currents pulling you this way and that would be brutal and dangerous. i'd have to tread water and there's no way i'm doing that for long enough to rest. i'd definitely drown
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
You can pull a life vest with you, but once you use it, the hypo is over.
And the hypo isn't that insane. A short, 3 mile swim in fairly calm water isn't that big a deal. Several poa in this very thread have talked about mile-plus swims they've done.
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:14 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
Explain. I would swim several miles and make several million. And you don't need to tug a boat if you think you can make it back to land without it. Or if you don't care to make it back to land.
Date: July 24th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
No need to double the mileage. I'll swim out 5 miles (or more), then hop in the dinghy I pulled behind me to head back to land and hit the pub for a nice bitter.
Date: July 24th, 2026 10:24 PM Author: Haunting hissy fit
towing a lifevest I'm very confident I could do at least two miles and make it back, worst case scenario I still get the million but had to work for it so I'm in, this is assuming that your 48 hour window is based on not being able to prepare not having to go out in a legit storm
Date: July 25th, 2026 9:53 AM Author: cracking menage
I have no idea what my distance-swimming capacity is, let alone my open-water distance-swimming capacity (I'm reasonably but still unsupportedly confident on the former, incredibly pessimistic on the latter).
So I'll take the $1M. Give me some time to train, and especially time to train while deciding, and maybe I try to string together a few miles, but right now I just worry I hit 0 and die.
Date: July 25th, 2026 10:01 AM Author: mischievous toaster prole
What about it? You don't have do tow a boat. You could swim back when you're done, if you're inclined. But if you want, you can bring a boat or life jacket with you to help you get back to land after you swim as far as you're going to. You just can't use that helpful stuff until you're done with the hypo, so if you want to bring it, you need to tow it behind you.
Date: July 25th, 2026 10:17 AM Author: cracking menage
Nigger, two-thirds of us are going to drown within 50 feet of the water getting deeper than 5'8". We are not "towing" a fucking ship behind us, quit being a faggot.
Date: July 26th, 2026 4:57 AM Author: Haunting hissy fit
the boat towing hypo is fairly retarded but not as retarded as you might think, things move so much easier in water that a strong swimmer could make that work, if I had an inflatable kayak kind of thing on a string I could probably haul it without much issue and whenever I give out I'm golden
Date: July 25th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: passionate pistol
If presented with this opportunity I'd assume it was a Willy Wonka kind of situation where the offer that only a coward would accept is not a real offer and I need to prove my mettle to get the prize. I'll go for the swim and probably drown.
Date: July 26th, 2026 9:11 AM Author: Copper Place Of Business
op, your hypo is gay. If your towing some shit with you for the ride back in event of not meaking it, then everyone takes the million unless you are 1975 Mark Spitz. Personally, I could do probly 3 miles, but I dont want to be 3 miles off shore in the English fucking Channel when I decide to stop. Henceforth, I will take the $1mill.
Date: July 27th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: Cocky poppy address
I swim 1 + 1/3 miles every morning (well, most mornings). Without a buttload of additional training lasting months, I could probably do up to 3 miles in open water and that would leave me pretty wrecked. Absolutely no way I can swim the whole English Channel, and if I tried without support, I would die.
So I would at most trust myself to swim 1.5 miles out, and then I would have to swim 1.5 miles back, and even that would involve non-zero risk to my life. All for 1.5 million.
I'll take the 1M and just stay in bed risklessly instead.
Date: July 27th, 2026 1:01 PM Author: Cocky poppy address
you'd need to sleep, and what happens if the raft drifts while you sleep?
The English Channel is 21 miles across at its narrowest. When I swim laps, my cruising speed is around 2 mph. So I would take 11+ hours of cruising speed swimming to cross the Channel, not counting any breaks, and not allowing for extra time to swim in a difficult body of open water. I either swim it all in one day, or I sleep and risk drifting all the way back to the starting point. Nazca Redlines tp's hypo seems to rule out assistance. I don't think I can do it without assistance. I'll take the 1M and stay in bed instead.
Date: July 27th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: mischievous toaster prole
If there is a problem here--and there isn't--it's that not enough poa who did a little D1 swimming in college saw this thread. Maybe they were all at an ironman triathalon or something.
Date: July 27th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: Rose kitty cat stead
agreed. nazca should know his audience. open water swimming is a sport for chubby women with great buoyancy. we're all jacked studs who played a little college ball.