When I was 9 years old I swam across the Ohio river! It took me eleven hours!

The Ohio is only about three hundred yards wide in some areas, but it was mid January and the Ohio is frozen three feet thick that time of year! Being as I was about 200 lbs. at 9 years old and subsisted mainly off of red pop, pork rhinds and twinkies I had no problems breaking through the ice!

After graduation I was recruited by the Lake Erie Coast Guard to be a cold water diver. They mainly wanted someone who was heavy enough to break through five feet of ice and swim down and get thier anchor back for them when it got stuck on the bottom.

My mom would'nt let me join though because she said that showing off is a sin and if I left who would mow the grass?

PHATBOY