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...role is part of a wider $1.2 million campaign to publicize northeastern Queensland, which officials claim has already generated more than $75 million worth of publicity. The job itself requires Southall, a former project manager at an agricultural company, "to explore the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, swim, and snorkel, make friends with the locals and generally enjoy the tropical Queensland climate and lifestyle." But before his position kicks in on July 1, he talked to TIME about this chance of a lifetime...
...that as much as possible. We had a couple of days in London meeting the CEO of Hamilton Island and his workers where we had to demonstrate we could do this job to them. Then 16 of us were flown out to Australia to show that we could actually swim and snorkel. We had to document all this to prove we would be able to blog about it and could sell Tourism Queensland to the rest of the world...
When I can, I try to swim. I like to do jigsaw puzzles. Maybe on a Sunday morning sleep late and read a book. Not much time for too much of that...
...Charles has been a key resource to Harvard’s outdoors community—hosting boat races including the Head of the Charles Regatta, and the annual Polar Bear Swim, an annual event in which Alaska Klub members jump into the river despite Cambridge’s freezing winter temperatures...
SEAL training is a grueling ordeal: its core six-month course includes a "hell week" in which waterlogged recruits undergo five straight days of push-ups, running and advanced exercises--like learning to swim with their hands and feet tied--on a total of four hours of sleep. The Navy has more than 330,000 active sailors but only about 2,000 SEALs. The small fraction of recruits who pass training, as Phillips knows, are excellent shots...