It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis.

There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.