Charity swimmer makes waves
Posted by admin on 13 August, 2009
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Dan Meyrick
A KENDAL man plans to make a splash for a cancer charity when he swims 21 miles across the English channel next month.
Dan Meyrick – a former Queen Katherine School pupil – hopes to raise £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support during his gruelling solo swim in September. The London fire fighter has trained for 18 months for the event – which he will attempt in mid September – and recently completed a 10 mile swim of the Dover coast in preperation. “It’s very hard work and I’m very nervous but I’m hoping to raise a lot of money because it’s such a good charity,” he said.
It will take the swimmer around 16 hours to make his way through shoals of jellyfish and slicks of raw sewage across the world’s busiest shipping lane.
“A friend of mine died of cancer ten years ago so I’ve done a bit for cancer charities before,” he said. “Last year some friends and I swam Windermere to raise £1,700 for Cancer Research so this seemed like the next challenge up.”
