Great Chesapeake Bay Swim

I started this swim on the 12th of June 2003. This swim is a distance of 7.2kms long. This swim is where you swim under the span of the Chesapeak bridge in Baltimore Maryland USA. This swim is an actual race where 500 competitors swim on the day and there is 2 waves of 250 swimmers that do the swim. I was in the first wave of 250 people as I am a slow swimmer and the defending champion from the previous year goes in the second wave along with all of the other very good swimmers. I had a Kayaker who I had never met before who blew the whistle for me to guide me. We had one practice the day prior to the swim and we worked out a system that would work for us boht as there would be a lot of other swimmers in a short space under the bridge.I completed the swim and I decided not to take a drink break along the way as I thought that would be hard to do so and maybe I should have taken a drink break. But after about 2 hours 40minutes I completed the swim and I was very happy to do so. I am not sure if any other blind people have done this swim in the past.