Talk:Lynne Cox

Norway and Sweden
The bit where is says 'swam from Norway to Sweden'. Now, I may be missing something here, but since the two countries are joined by land, you'd only have to walk into the water at the border of one, swim a few metres, then wade back to land to have swum from one to the other. I strongly suspect this is a mistake, and have found references to her swimming from Denmark to Sweden in nes stories. If she swam the Oresund and Skaggerak, that would, I believe, mean she swam from Denmark to Sweden. Average Earthman 14:25, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * ISHOF says on their site that she did swim from Norway to Sweden in 1976. However, this may be an inaccuracy on their part...the only way I see that your conclusion could be wrong is if she swam the Skaggerak starting at a point farther south in Norway, and went straight to Sweden. -TeeRebel (talk) 22:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Bering Strait
The article doesn't say exactly when Ms. Cox swam in the Bering strait but it must have occurred sometime between March 1985 and January 1989. Is this the "height of the Cold War" exactly? -Frank Burdett
 * Per her web site it was in 1987. http://www.lynnecox.org/Lecture.htm --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 20:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Bering Strait 2
For me it's the 80km between Chukotka and Alaska, not the 4 between Big and Little Diomede. This isn't to say it wasn't a gutsy thing to do, I just don't think the description is accurate. -Patrick

Cook Strait
According to the Wikipedia article, it's 23km wide in the narrowest point, not 16km. -Patrick


 * The phrase "height of the Cold War" is as overused as they come. I'm nuking it.  And Random House, in a page on her book, says it was 1987.

Birthdate?
Seems she was born sometime in 1967...but shouldn't an entry like this have a birthdate?

http://www.ishof.org/00lcox.html


 * I'm going to put (born 1957). Mike H 16:59, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

Relatives, mm?
Big Diomede, I've heard, has been empty since the second World War, when the Russians sent the local population away...--VKokielov 22:12, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lynne Cox has a book titled swimming to Antarctica...all the facts are in the book

praise from gorbachev and reagan
This sentence has been in the article for a long time: Even more remarkably, her accomplishment eased Cold War tensions as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Washington, DC to jointly congratulate her success.

I did a newspaper search, and it seems misleading -- both world leaders did separately praise Cox, whose Bering Strait swim came on the eve of a Soviet-US summit, but the men did not meet specifically to honor Cox as this phrasing suggests. I've changed the sentence and added refs. If this did occur and someone has references, pls feel free to add it back in -- I haven't read her book yet, either. phoebe / (talk) 14:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, phoebe. Somebody else also later removed the 'Even more remarkably'. Nevertheless the claim that 'her achievement eased Cold War tensions' still seems overstated and unencyclopedic - I don't even know whether it's stated in the given source (as I can't check it), but even if it is, the opinion of one journalist on a California county newspaper seems inadequate for what is arguably an extraordinary claim, especially in the absence of apparent support from leading historians or heavyweight newspapers like the New York Times or Washington Post, which one might expect if she really had significantly eased Cold War tensions - anybody can claim that she helped to marginally ease them, and quite possibly she did, but one would still need a reliable source that clearly states that, and even then it would be debatable whether this deserved inclusion (as similar claims can presumably be made on behalf of huge numbers of other well-meaning people, and it's not clear what if anything such claims really mean). So I'm toning it down to a statement that her achievement a few years before the end of the Cold War earned praise from both Reagan and Gorbachev. If somebody else can find better phraseology please do. (Incidentally, not that my own recollection matters here, but, for the record, my recollection is that Cold War tensions were very high from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, sometimes referred to at the time as 'the start of a second Cold War' by the many people who had thought they were living in a 'post-Cold War' era that was often called 'detente', and these tensions remained fairly high until shortly after Gorbachev came to power in 1985, but that by mid-1987 relations between Washington and Moscow were already vastly better than they are today - of course 1987 was 28 years ago, and perhaps 28 years from now we will be reading in Wikipedia and so-called 'reliable sources' that 2015 was 'during the Cold War'.) Tlhslobus (talk) 06:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Sharks
Cape of Good Hope, Catalina island, wasn't she afraid of any sharks?

remarkable! no wetsuits!
the remarkable and unmentioned amazing factor about Lynne is that she did all her swims without wearing wetsuits. In some of her later swims detailed in her book, she was monitored and studied by physiologists, and found to have unusual body characteristics.

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Lynne E Cox
Second name "E" according to

https://www.dover.uk.com/channel-swimming/swims/all/solo

--Helium4 (talk) 16:48, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Cape of Good Hope
The lady was certainly NOT the first to swim around the cape. I was born in Cape Town in 1947 and in the sixties I was at university with a young man who had swum round the headland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2406:2D40:4108:8400:3811:AFF9:468C:5982 (talk) 01:59, 7 August 2023 (UTC)