Lewis Pugh - Sea Quotes

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I have been haunted by that swim through the whale graveyard and haven't been able to get the image of the bones out of my head. Man hunted whales almost to the point of extinction, not seeming to care that we would lose one of the wonders of the sea world forever. It is the coldness of the water in Antarctica that preserves the bones and makes it look like they were left there yesterday but I like to think they are there as a reminder of man's potential for folly.

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There's nothing more chilling than swimming across open sea, where recently there used to be a solid glacier.

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I always feel nostalgic when I disembark (off a ship). It's not that I don't like land. I just love being at sea.

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They have [...] a split personality. One moment they're your best mate, and next they are trying to drag you down to the bottom of the sea to drown you. [...] It's just astonishing.

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Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.

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I've swum through some very cold and rough seas. I think that's made me more determined than the average person.

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No matter how tough my day has been, when I dive into the sea, the world seems perfect.

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I resolved to follow my dream. I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them. And though it promised to make me poor and would take away the security provided by a career in law, that didn't worry me.

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