American Reacts to Ross Edgley’s Non-Stop Loch Ness Swimming Challenge
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In this video I react to Ross Edgley facing his most dangerous challenge ever, swimming the world's longest open water non-stop swim at Loch Ness. He has no breaks and no sleep for such an insane amount of time that I don't want to give any spoilers away.
Before this I had never heard of Ross Edgley, but this guy is awesome. Turns out he's a popular British athlete and adventurer and after this I'm going to have to keep an eye out for his next adventure. I've never seen anyone even attempt to do something as intense as this swimming challenge. Not only that, I found Ross to be a very inspiring and motivational person and it was awesome to see just how beautiful Loch Ness is.
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A bit of info on the size of Loch Ness (save you Googling it)
Max. length 36.2 km (22.5 mi)
Max. width 2.7 km (1.7 mi)
Surface area 56 km2 (21.8 sq mi)
Average depth 132 m (433 ft)
Max. depth 226.96 m (124.10 fathoms; 744.6 ft)[2]
Water volume 7.5 km3 (1.8 cu mi)
Loch Ness contains more water than all the Lochs in Scotland and Lakes in England added together. I don't know how much water the Loch Ness Monster displaces.
It doesn't contain more water than the rest of the lochs, it does contain more water than all the lakes, rivers and reservoirs in England and Wales
This is giving me anxiety! 😩 Don't like water, don't like cold. And theres a monster in there! 😂
🤣 It's all good. Nessie.. she's super friendly 😁
@@niknax25 I wouldn't risk it! I've seen those cute Nessie pics and ornaments where she's wearing a jaunty Tam O'Shanter and a cheeky smile but I'm sure she's luring us into a false sense of security 😩😂
@@irene3196 salmon? She's got expensive tastes! 😂
@@CW1971 🤣 🤣 🤣
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He's right about us cancer patients,you don't know what you can really do until your mind and body is pushed to the limit,it's written medically down that "I have a Sunny Disposition on Life" 😊
Good luck
@@jeffree9015 I got my mum through breast cancer,by telling her we were going to beat this by mocking it,she's been clear of cancer for 15yrs,my brother and sister were distraught which didn't help our mum so they agreed to do it my way
I had Leukaemia, my red cell count was 46 and they couldn't understand how I was still walking, I was just a very ordinary 48 year old, and overweight. The doctor said I was very strong, I didn't feel it! I treated it like a job, I said you tell me what to do and I'll do it, I took enjoyment from anywhere, there was always laughter coming out of my isolation room and once a nurse said to me how are you so happy? What's the alternative! If I have to be here I might as well enjoy it! You take care and get better! 💐💐💐
In 2019 I was diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer. They gave me 4 years and five months. Accordingly I'll be dead on the 21st of November. However, that ain't going to happen. I have a date with my granddaughter to take her to school on her first day. She is one year old. I'm fighting not because I need to., but because I want to. God bless all other cancer sufferers out there.
Steve, don't forget that Loch Ness is a fresh water lake, so no added buoyancy as you'd get swimming in the Sea. I live just a mile from Loch Ness, btw! I would have watched this, had I known!
Yeah, that's a great point. It definitely would have been cool to see in person :)
This man should be in our SAS. He has the mentality required.
Loch Ness is very beautiful. Has a special magic all of its own. Dont think id fancy swimming in it, though!
I went to school in Inverness, just up the road from the Loch. We used to go to Loch Ness for PE, learning how to canoe properly, like recovering from turning upside down in the water. It was cold, even on warm days and one day we had hail for about 10 minutes and were too far out to make it back to some shelter so we wet lads in our t-shirt, shorts and life vests got pelted. Fun times.
The orange to float is mainly an aid to visibility - his support team can spot where he is much more easily with that than just with a bright coloured wetsuit or swimming cap, and most of him is under the water at any one time.
Amazing guy - not just for what he attempts, but also his attitude!
I've just Googled his family, and his father was a tennis coach and his mother a sprinter - so an athletic background, but nothing extreme.
Yeah, it's pretty impressive all around!
Thanks for doing this, I haven’t heard of him but will be looking into his books. A very interesting character
Glad you enjoyed it! I always love seeing people pushing their limits like this.
Scottish Lochs are always very cold - I know from experience! Loch Ness is nice to visit, but it's far from our prettiest loch. I live right at Loch Lomond which is absolutely stunning (and we have open water swimming contests and championships here). Other favourite lochs of mines are Loch Maree, Loch Awe, Loch Katrine, Loch Morar Loch Lubnaig, Loch Chon, Loch Broom and Loch Torridon, though I think they're all amazing. Our Lochs and rivers are extremely dangerous though - I don't think anyone in my village doesn't know someone who's been lost to the water. I sadly know quite a few. You should totally watch some videos about the Stoltman brothers btw - Yes Theory spent some time with them. They're two great guys. Also, wetsuits are your best friend when you're swimming in open water. It'll still be cold, but they also oddly make the water feel a little warm as the suits trap your own body heat.
My folks had a wee caravan on the shore of loch awe back in the seventies . Magical times. Nothing like a fresh caught trout 🎉 Beautiful scenery ❤ My dads ashes are scattered at loch rannoch
Awesome, I'll definitely check them out. Thanks :)
11:45 - depends on the grade of your wetsuit. All a wetsuit does is trap a layer of water next to your skin, so it's heated by your body. you'll still lose heat by convection, and a bit by water interchange (which is why he had one custom made - the better the fit, the less you lose) but it's an insulating layer like the way a warm jumper keeps a layer of warm air by your skin. Generally speaking, the thicker the wetsuit, the better it traps that water and the warmer you stay. He's probably wearing a 5 or 6mm thick wetsuit, which would give insulation against 10-15C or 5-10C water respectively (he might have opted for 5mm to keep the weight down, given the expected temp shown at the start was closer to 15C, despite the actual being closer to 10C). Despite that, he's probably reasonably warm for as long as his body is producing lots of heat due to the exertion - the key would be providing his body enough fuel to burn to maintain both that heat expenditure and the physical effort.
13:25 - the thing he's carrying is a large thin airbag in a bright colour with a light attached... it's to improve visibility to make sure his support team doesn't lose him, as a human head in even the slightest swell just... vanishes.
But better with one than without one.
I had to swim in Loch Ness back in the 80's. i was on a 2 week adventure coarse with the army
doing ben nevis, rock climbing ab sailing, we were also doing a conoe river trip and surf canoeing in the sea
but before we could do the canoe trips, we had to prove that we could swim, we had to swim 25m out to a canoe, dive under it and swim back,
The water was so cold, all your muscles tightened, it was hard to breath, this was in october, when we got out to dry off
our whole bodies hurt, the same thing as throwing snow balls hands get cold, warm then to quick they hurt
we were like that, having to jump back in, to stop us warming to quicky
Can't imagine! Sounds intense.
I have enough problems swimming a length of the swimming pool, without swimming in a lake for 4 days! Good job Nessie never popped her head up to say hello!
Ross is amazing, what a guy
Steve, you must do a video on England's 1966 World Cup victory. The players were amazing. Greavzy, Hurstzy, Ballzy, they were an inspiration.
Why would he be interested in that?
Such a boring subject to watch. And I mean any football.
You should check out some of his more recent swims. They're incredible
Fantastic endurance, and mental fortitude, and a very humbling experience, it's pitch black by 6pm in October in the highlands, and won't be day light again until 6.30 am, he did 2 nights of that, that is the stuff of legends in that water.
Loch Ness. It’s a Loch. Check out a Scottish map and you’ll see quite a few Loch’s 😊
It is our longest and deepest loch though, so that might help.
Ur my favourite channel to watch rn keep up the good work dude
Thanks! Really appreciate that :)
Each side of the loch is a different tectonic plates north side two merged plates wrapped around each other, where prof of the plate movement theory was nailed
What can I say! Simply a great athlete. I couldn't do anything like this.
I'm exhausted just watching this
The orange float is used as a visibility device. It makes him easier to spot for boats
Wow, amazing, crazy but certainly makes you think and put things into perspective..
Great video Steve, thank you..👍🏻
The orange float is a visibility aid so other vessels using the Loch have the chance of avoiding him and not running him down and, of course, for his own team to keep track of him at night or in heavy waters - especially as it was said at the beginning of this video that the waves can be 2m high in bad weather.
He swam the entire island of Great Britain 🇬🇧 what a nutter! 😅 p.s you need a bit of lard on your body to keep you warm.
Also check out Eddie Hall and Guy Martin.
Guy's channel is z really good watch if you like energy plants and how big things work
As a side not steve, he mentioned roger banister doing the 4m mile, i used to run for oxford and train on the same track as roger banister broke the 4 minute mile, ifley road oxford, its owned by the universaty, he done that on a cinders track, when i ran, it was updated to a tarten rubber track
Imagine staying awake for 100 hours, never mind swimming for that long.
You should watch his swim around britan it took him half a year, his swim around britan he swam for 6 hours got into a boat dropped anchor ate and slept 6 hours got back in and carried on swimming, so it was 12 hours in the water 12 hours rest and eating everyday for half a year.
I can't imagine the amount of dedication that takes!
I struggle to stay awake after 16hrs on 7hr sleep let alone swim😂
I know, right?!
Loch Ness is the deepest loch in Scotland which is why they say they've never found Nessie and Loch Lomond is the longest. I would think Loch Ness would be colder than Loch Lomond. I dread to think how it would feel but two of my workmates do open water swimming in Loch Lomond. I live 10 miles from Loch Lomond and have only been swimming in Loch Lomond during the height of the summer. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to do it thinking as it was 0 degrees Centigrade driving to work this morning.
This guy is taking a big, big risk. There be monsters in this Loch.
Perhaps you guys should do a reaction video of Loch Ness itself. Loch Ness holds more water than all of the lakes in England and Wales put together.
Steve, most swimmers I’ve seen are short and muscular, not necessarily slim at all 😂
He is his father’s own legacy!
loch ness holds more water than the whole of England n Wales Rivers lake and canals put together, its 22 miles long off top my head and just as deep lol
The world record weightlifter he mentioned (Eddie Hall) is the guy from the UK's rudest restaurant video you did.
Oh, yeah! Didn't even put that together. Thanks :)
The long distance philosopher! Eh?
32 miles long and cold and it is not a Lake it is a Loch
Yes wet suits will keep you warmer but gradually lose their efficiency as your body heat slowly gets through the suit
My ex husband used to swim and he said he peed in his suit to keep warm, was he messing with me 😮
@@kimarnill7648 I don't know because wetsuits aren't waterproof hence the name wetsuit, drysuits are waterproof but still wouldn't keep you any warmer as the heat would dissipate from it very quickly either way so it wouldn't do much after about 30 seconds. In a dry suit tho it would be really bad because your already kept warm by the suit and all your really doing is giving yourself the equivalent of nappy rash
I only managed the 100M certificate at school, so I'll give it a miss.
Although I did pick up the brick in my pyjamas 😂
Loch Ness is increadably deep so it's more than cold in Scotland we call it Baltic.
In the winter it's getting dark at 3pm and getting light at 10am ish at this level of Scotland. Great for vampires but in the summer its nearly 24hr day light terrible for vampires but we get Midgies horrid wee bloud sucking gits.
The difference is that he is choosing to do this, which takes extraordinary strength of will when you can just stop.
Very true! Much harder under those circumstances.
Dude allow the stats and numbers. I sat watching this the same way you did. Fml this guy is impressive.
Alice Morrison completed a 2,000km walk across the Sahara desert.
Look her up.
Loch Nes is 23 miles long, 1 mile wide, the english channel is 21 miiles for reference
Made more dangerous because of Nessie :D
He has a float in case he passes out, can't keep going or sinks.
Loch Ness is colder and freshwater (lower buoyancy) but the Channel would be choppier, so a slightly different challenge.
@@Thurgosh_OG Also a lot of ships in channel ;)
there's more water in Loch Ness than all the lakes in England and Wales combined!
Seriously? That's insane, if so.
@@reactingtomyroots As a Scotsman I can confirm, that's why we won't have water shortages in Scotland, this is one of many lochs in our wet little country.
When swimming around Britain he was really affected and the salt water nearly rotted his tongue off
Well that sounds horrifying!
ive seen my house twice so far in this
haha that's pretty cool!
Surprised he didn't get eaten by Nessie
At least the monster never ate him 🙄
sure if they gave nessie a load a fish he would have him a lift to the end of the loch
steve, you said how big is lochness, its alot to do with the depth, if you took all the water from all the lakes in england, including the lake district, you would be close to how much water in contained in the loch, its also very brown and and heavy, because of the peat deposits, from the area
you wouldn't be close, not even half.
@@aa-xg3ct maybe so, just something i heard along the way, i could google it, but go from memory something i was told, keeps the chat going for steve also
@@aa-xg3ct how this guy done that aside, i swam 5 minutes, we had to go in pairs, 25m out, and stay side by side and 25m back, just incase someone got in trouble, we did not have wet suits we were given the for the river trips and surf canoe, i still cant believe that guys, tolerance, even with wet suit, for that long,
Brown and heavy with monster poo
Loch Ness holds more water than all the lakes and rivers of England and Wales combined.
he did a swimming challenge whilst towing a tree once
The largest lake in the uk in area is Lough neagh in northern island the largest by area in Britain is Loch Loch Lomond the longest is Loch awe and the deepest is Loch maree
Loch Ness holds more water than all the lakes and rivers in England and Wales combined.
it is a marker bouy that they use to show where they are to anyone is looking for them in the water\
Ah, okay!
He’s saying 15degrees Celsius. That’s 59 Fahrenheit
Did he find the Loch Ness monster 🐉🐉🐉
I think I would feel lesser just standing next to this guy. BAMF all the way.
haha yeah, for sure
Ide say it wouldn't be over 10°C
He's not swimming for speed....he's not Ian Phelps....he needs the fat for warmth.
There are
all that effort and still didn't find nessie
😂
Why not do it somewhere a little warmer
haha yeah, seems intense!
Loch Ness is
23 miles long it has more water than all the lakes in England
126 fathoms; 755 feet - deeper than the North Sea
Yee harrrrrr 1st 😃🤔🫣😂🚽
This comment is more linked to your American Reacts to US vs UK Food Standards Video... for you & your familys mental health are you sure you want to explore this rabbit hole. Only one outcome. Like in the Matrix best to ask to be plugged back in.
If you consider by 18, someone may have song the american national anthem 1000 times. Result... Ask them what is the greatest country? Amercia is repeated. Habitually trained
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution created in 2011 shows the same stuff.. watch how the Amercians attack him when confronted with these topics.
Stupid question, what if he needs a 💩.😮
😂
He's English.
Steve, most swimmers I’ve seen are short and muscular, not necessarily slim at all 😂