Next Time Lady, Do the Math Before You Try To Pull a Hoax On Everyone..

Lady Swims Across the Atlantic - NOT !!

You know, the press can be reallt gullible and stupid sometimes. Take the case of Jennifer Figge.. The 5 year old woman was attempting to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Actually, even that wasn't true - she was going from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad, an estimated 2400 miles, but still 500 miles shorter than actually going from Europe to America.

How do you swim 2400 miles? Well, you swim during the day, and you sleep in the boat at night. Figge reportedly swam anywhere from 21 minutes in a day to 8 hours, but lo and behold, there she was in Trinidad 25 days later, claiming she did the entire trip. The media was all over it, hailing the first woman to swim the Atlantic. Then someone got out a calculator...

To swim 100 miles a day as she claimed, she would have had to swim at a rate of 12 mph for the full 8 hours a day. To get the equivalent of that, go outside, and run as fast as you can, and you'll do 12 mph. That's running, swimming 12 mph is nearly impossible. In fact, if Michael Phelps swam his fastest world record pace 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without EVER stopping, it would take him 20 days to swim the distance. Even if he wasn't high....Figge is NOT Michael Phelps...

Someone finally got out that calculator, and Figge was busted. When asked, Figge admitted that she didn't swim the 2400 miles (she estimated she did 250 miles), and that she never 'intended to swim the Atlantic'. Uh, what was the intention then? My guess is that her intention was to short time her way to stardom. It reminds me of Rosie Ruiz. Ruiz was a lady who never ran a marathon in under 3 hours, then suddenly, she won the NYC Marathon in about 2:20. It turns out that she grabbed a cab to an area about 4 miles from the finish line, then got on the track and won. Nice....

So, is Figge's fame shot to hell? Nah....She'll just write a book about it.

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