"When I started hearing these stories about people who had not given up on the opportunity to really test the limits, I thought, 'Why can't I do this thing?' That was the beginning of my journey of trying to figure out how I was gonna realize my potential,"
"And I knew I needed to do it in the water."
"I guess normal people, nonswimmers, could relate it to the high after a great workout or incredible sex."
Michael Moreau, 49, completed the 28.5-mile Manhattan circumnavigation—starting at the southern tip, up the East River, through the Harlem, and down the Hudson—in handcuffs and in well under ten hours. The feat earned two Guinness World Records: longest open-water swim in handcuffs and first (and fastest) circumnavigation of the city’s waterways in shackles. Support crew members celebrated the rush of open-water swimming as an intense natural high. Moreau described the attempt as a personal test of limits and potential. Moreau grew up immersed in water and works as a creative director on land.
Read at New York Post
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