Sixteen staff and friends from Bath estate and lettings agencieshave swum a distance equivalent to that of the English Channel tohelp raise money for Dorothy House Hospice.
The team from Whitfield Nash and JD Lettings set themselves thechallenge of covering the 22-mile distance from Dover to Calais inthe outdoor pool at the Royal United Hospital - by swimming 1,690lengths between them.
But once the distance was completed the swimmers were determinedto continue and between them swam 2,461 lengths, which is theequivalent of swimming the channel and halfway back again.
Staff members raised sponsorship for their efforts and reached atotal of Pounds 1,355 for the Winsleybased hospice.
Dan Davies started the team off at 7.30am, closely followed byJoan Sims.
Danny Vilalta completed the swim at 7.30pm, after around 12 hoursof almost continual swimming from the team for the charity.
This is not the first challenge completed by the Whitfield Nashand JD Lettings team for Dorothy House, they also took on their ownversion of the three peaks challenge.
Normally the challenge involves scaling the highest peaks inScotland, Wales and England. However, their event did not involvemountains and instead saw staff scaling some of Bath's toughestclimbs - Bathwick Hill, Wellsway and Lansdown Road.
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