After you watched Jaws, you never wanted to go back in the water. It scared a generation of kids. Swimming on one beach is something, but imagine swimming in the sea for days on end. This is what the documentary Don’t Be Prey is about, the uknown in the sea.
I think I got my 100-meter swimming certificate at school, that’s something. The people who take on this challenge, fair play to them. The rest of the details are from the press release.
Ten years ago, the English Channel marked the beginning of a pursuit that would span five continents and seven of the world’s most brutal channel swims. Join Coach Tim Denyer and Australian ocean swimmer Mark Sowerby as they reflect on a decade-long journey shaped by endurance, uncertainty, and survival.
Don’t Be Prey is an edge-of-your-seat adventure into one man’s fight to reclaim his life by taking on extraordinarily challenging channel crossings fraught with danger, the Oceans Seven. Featuring unforgettable characters, raw vulnerability, and the constant risk of sharks and jellyfish, it’s a gripping, uplifting journey of resilience, reinvention and what it really takes to survive.
The Challenge – Oceans Seven
The Oceans Seven is a marathon swimming challenge consisting of seven open water channel swims. It was devised in 2008 as the swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering feat. It comprises the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokaʻi Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar.
- Molokaʻi Channel (also known as the Kaiwi Channel): between Moloka’i and O’ahu, 45km/ 28mi
- English Channel: between England and France, 33.5km/21mi
- Catalina Channel: between Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles, 32.3km/20mi
- North Channel: between Northern Ireland and Scotland, 34.5km /21.5mi
- Cook Strait: between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, 22.5km /14mi
- Tsugaru Strait: between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, 19.5km/12mi
- Strait of Gibraltar: between Spain and Morocco, 14.4km/9mi
Don’t Be Prey will be in UK cinemas on the 20th of March.
