1000 Mile Swim, Conquering Iceland!

You have to have our phone, yeah? Get the photo. It is a bit of a gamble, but... Nice legs. That was good. What's your favourite part of the job? My favourite part of the job is when the swim is done and when the swim begins. Right now I get to organise all his swim gear. They just kind of go Yeah, organise for the next swim. Hopefully set him up for success for the next swim. So drying all his gear out. Making sure his wetsuit is good to go. And it's not chafing him. There we go. Good job. You brought the sun. You brought the sun and some Kangals. That's good. What's funny is that was one of the cleaner exits. You picked a good one. That was actually pretty safe. You didn't have to kiss the ladder. There was right when you were going up to it, a big wave was curling up behind you and you were like, OK, here we go. The worst was the night one though, wasn't it? Yeah. Brian navigated for four hours. Pitch black. Massive waves. This is after the hurricane. Navigating with just the light from my watch and the sound of a splash. Look at that. Don't look at me, I'm shy. You need to give me two days notice. How would you describe the south coast to someone? I can't say it's not fit for a broadcast. I don't understand, why is your shoulder a problem? What have you done? It's soft. I had Wei with words and that was close to the edge. Luckily I've got my life jacket on and he won't throw me in just yet. Or he might throw me in. Yeah. We're in a rough old day today. I'm not going to get anything out of Ross for this but he's in and slogging away. We basically have a very long tide today to try and tie up this one little connection on the south coast and then we're kind of done with the whole south coast. We just have the last little bit around the corner to do. But it's thrown a real curveball for us for this last bit where we're just being slammed. It's super swelly, super choppy and Ross is absolutely exhausted and has to pull it out of the bag for quite a big swim today. Lots of extra feeds and then just kind of accepting that the speed's not great. It's quite slow but just to slog and just keep on going. So we're trying to do shifts up on deck here to sort of keep the morale up and make sure there's always someone out here to feed him, throw him some bananas and stuff and try and keep the morale up once we get through this bit. And then hopefully tonight we'll be on our way to Vesmaire and onto the final headland back into Gotha. This is pre-workout. This is the stuff that makes you swim around Iceland. Just a load of caffeine. It doesn't like seawater because it goes off rock hard. We are here. Thank you big man. We got that. That's disgusting. That was horrible. That was so bad. I've aged so much. Oh we did it. That was horrible. My shoulders hate me. You did it. That was huge. That feels so good joining the guys. That was huge. You've been thrown everywhere. Hey folks, so as you can see no longer on a boat. I wanted to interject here because at this point in the trip it all gets a little bit hectic as we head for the very end very last little section. We sail back from here having completed that south coast section to the Vesmaire Islands once more. It's where we refuelled got loads of food and stuff on board. From there we headed into Grindervik. Ok this is emotional. This could be the last video because this year I wanted to become the first person to swim 1000 miles around the entire coast of Iceland and now we have what is probably 30 miles left just around this corner. Cheeky 30 miles for breakfast. Celebratory burgers. Done. Cheers. Get it like yours on. Now I had a situation where because the trip had been taking us so much longer than we thought I had to go and get my visa renewed. It hadn't quite come through so I might have had to leave just before the very end. So I needed to go to the visa office, sort that stuff out chase it up and make sure that I wasn't on the boat stuck off a headland when we got to the end so that I didn't get in trouble. I managed to get it cleared. I went and found the wonderful CrossFit athlete Sarah Sigmundsdottir who let me go and do an interview with her. Take two. Like pool swimming is ok but it's just a different element. You're in this environment where you have no control and it's like running on a treadmill and running outside. We've been trying to get her on the boat for this trip for ages but our logistics just got so complicated on the south coast we couldn't do it so we were really hoping to have someone on board and come and swim with us. But we did a sick training video with her which you'll see soon. Come on! And then I went and caught up with the guys as they were sailing up the coast so I went and got my traditional wildlife hat back on and got a tripod and a really big zoom lens and did loads of filming of them as they were swimming all the way up the coast which you'll see more in the Channel 4 documentary before finally a few days later catching up with them at the first ending, the official ending of the swim. Hey folks, so this is kind of it. We're about 6 o'clock in the morning. The weather's been coming from the north the last couple of days and so I've got all my layers on because it's genuinely quite cold now. It's getting to that point of being misty and stuff in the mornings and you can really genuinely feel that the season has turned. The summer is over and just behind me, about a kilometre offshore, is Ross heading on in for his last, last kilometre and then he just has to make his way up this beach and he's actually done it. He's actually swum the entire way around Iceland which is just unbelievable and as tired as we all are and I'm sure I can speak for the guys on the boat as well because I've been off for the last few days filming on land but it feels almost like a weird sort of fever dream that we're actually here and it's actually getting to the end now. I don't know what we're going to do with ourselves. How are you? Good, good, how are you? I'm alright. That was a terrible idea. I'm going to need a haircut, look. Look at that, there's all sorts of coming in there. Goodbye. That was a bad idea. I'm going to fall off. Trying to find a burger. Never to be seen again. I love Iceland just because it's full of Icelandic people like you guys are amazing. Just thank you so much, you're amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm really motivated by food. I'm also. This looks on my nose. Smell it. Oh my god. It's actually for the whole crew, I'm sorry. Oh my god, I would do another lap if you give me one of these. Push em! Hey folks, I'm in the mood. You can't leave the country until you train with me. You're right. You can't come to Iceland and me being a big fan of you and you can't come to my gym so we have to do a session together. Agreed, but lower your expectations. Your expectations are here. My expectations are here.