Published August 13, 2010

This isn’t lake swimming in Maine, folks. This is Boston Harbor.

WBUR’s David Boeri observed all seven hours and seven minutes of Thursday’s record-breaking Double Light Swim — from Southie to Little Brewster Island and back. From his story:

They swam east into sunrise above America’s first lighthouse, which emerged from sea smoke and fog on a surface so smooth the swimmers made their own wake, their arms and shoulders reflected in the water. You could imagine a polished floor of the Atlantic all the way to Spain.

Boeri brought back this lovely little bit of video.

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