“I was the first person to wear a cap,” said 64-year-old Godfrey, in grade 10 at the time. “My dad wanted to be able to see me in the water. We’d only just started wearing caps in galas. I put my white cap on.”
The dam is marked out with buoys and swimmers are given balloons as a safety precaution with boats on hand to help any in distress.“There was no marking buoy,” said Godfrey, who is planning to make it 49 from 50 this weekend. “The following year we had a raft at halfway and of course all the water polo players from the schools, they’d get to the raft, they’d get on, they’d throw water polo balls around and they’d dive off and it became a thing for the water polo teams to go swim as teams.
“It’s very rare that [an open-water race] is one straight line [as Midmar is],” added Van Rouwendal, who competed in a straight 3km at Santorini.
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