How did the idea of the swim come about?
It’s pretty simple really. It all started as a big brother and little brother daring one another to do something crazy. We had just moved to London and were living together in Bethnal Green when we first talked about the idea of doing a proper open water swim. We thought we’d need some cool preparation swims before and the Corryvreckan got thrown up as we’d seen it advertised on SwimTrek. After a few whiskeys and some googling, we decided it would be a really cool thing to do.