Tag: Ben Hooper
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Meet the man who’s preparing to swim the Atlantic Ocean
If the Christmas excess still isn’t budging and you’re thinking about getting round to some exercise – how’s this for motivation? In a few weeks, Ben Hooper, a former policeman, will try to become first person to swim the Atlantic Ocean – more than one thousand, eight hundred miles of it. But it’s not only…
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Ben Hooper preparing to swim across the Atlantic
Swimmer Ben Hooper discusses his attempt to swim from Africa to South America.
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Meet the man who’s swimming from Senegal to Brazil
Meet Ben Hooper, the man who’s swimming from Senegal to Brazil in a bid to become the first person to swim the Atlantic Ocean. More people have landed on the moon than have swum an ocean in full, Ben is hoping to add his name to that list. It’ll take him around 120 days of…
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Ben Hooper on why he wants to swim 2,000 miles across the Atlanic Ocean
When adventurer Ben Hooper was five, he drowned in a Belgian swimming pool. This experience alone may excusably put off many from ever going near water again. But the father of one from Cheltenham is one of the few, rather than the many. The unassuming former police officer, 36, went to the entirely opposite end…
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Famous explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes backs Ben Hooper’s bid to swim Atlantic Ocean
Sir Ranulph Fiennes yesterday urged British businesses to “dig deep” and support a man’s historic attempt to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. The celebrated adventurer said West Country swimmer Ben Hooper’s 2,000-mile challenge would be “tough beyond imagination” and that it deserved the backing of major organisations. Sir Ranulph, widely regarded as the world’s greatest…