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'I LITERALLY THOUGHT I WAS DROWNING' — Adventurer Rob Lea on Surviving Grueling Swim to Complete World-First 'Double Seven'

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'I LITERALLY THOUGHT I WAS DROWNING' — Adventurer Rob Lea on Surviving Grueling Swim to Complete World-First 'Double Seven'

Rob Lea has become the first person to climb the Seven Summits and swim seven iconic ocean channels, a feat he completed in June 2026. His final Molokai swim nearly killed him, as he battled hypothermia and fluid in his lungs.

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It turned out that I had what's called SIPE, which is swimming induced pulmonary edema. And that's when you have fluid in your lungs. And it wasn't necessarily, um, from ingesting water, but this was like fluid in my body seeping into my lungs and I was basically slowly drowning out there as I was finishing that swim, in addition to having rabdo and all these other issues.
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