Omg He Is Really Going To Do It!

Gree · April 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">trans atlantic swim</div> Just go <a href='http://www.opera.com/swim/' target='_blank'>here</a> for the details.

Spacer · April 2005

This does not make me want to download opera.

Omegaman · April 2005

Best. CEO. Ever. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Epidemic · April 2005

It's impossible, he's gonna die :/

Nice PR gimmick though :/

Foxtrot_Uniform · April 2005

he would absolutely die. most assuredly.

AlienCow · April 2005

Insanity.

MedHead · April 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I want to thank each and every one of the one million plus people who have downloaded Opera 8 over the last days. I am proud to say that this is the most successful browser launch in the ten-year history of Opera. I have received numerous requests over the weekend on whether or not I am going to swim to the USA should we reach one million downloads. <b>Although I blatantly admit that my promise was based more on joy and enthusiasm than my swimming abilities and physical health, <span style='color:orange'>I will do my very best to keep it.</span></b></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Sounds like he's already preparing to back out! Regardless, who in their right minds say "If we get 1,000,000 downloads... <i>I'll swim the Atlantic!</i> Especially considering this comment:

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>"We are so proud of Jon for doing this," said Anne Stavnes, HR manager, Opera Software. <b>"Considering that the closest thing Jon has ever come to swimming was in the hot springs in Iceland when he was a kid, and those aren't even 3 feet deep."</b></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I get the idea this guy is currently sitting in his office, after spending a few hours at a dock for the photos.

raz0r · April 2005

Is that even possible?

If he does do this, i wish him a whole lot of luck

heartshaped · April 2005

I hope he dies.

StormLiong · April 2005

The CEO should have aimed higher for 1 Billion downloads.

1 Million seemed so easy to reach.

lolfighter · April 2005

It's a PR stunt, of course. And it's not gonna happen.

SkulkBait · April 2005

It could happen. He'll probably try and have to get rescued some 45 seconds in though.

DrSuredeath · April 2005

For some strange reason, I keep hearing Jaws theme and the poster for Open Water keeps popping up in my head.

Liku · April 2005

That's impossible.

Blobby · April 2005

I imagine that he'll take breaks on an boat. Of course he's not going to tread water the whole way.

im_lost · April 2005

I wonder how many people downloaded Opera 50 times or so without actually installing it just to help with getting 1 million downloads.

Gwahir · April 2005

I'm sure they at least tracked unique IPs

Nemesis_Zero · April 2005

Whatever, it's a nicer PR stunt than most.

Svenpa · April 2005

I take it that he will have a rescue boat next to him all the way? He'll prolly do it but he will not succeed. Even if he was at peak physical performence he would soon die/not last by the icey cold water.

Sub_zer0 · April 2005

jet plane -12 hours (going lets say i dunno 500mph (i dunno how fast tehy go guessing feel free to corect))

man swimin 1 month (at least) travaling at 5mph (at most)

arctica · April 2005

If a Trans-Atlantic swim was possible, I'd already be doing it. Honestly.

...but alas. This guy's an idiot. However I do want to see this happen. The Atlantic's a ****, eh?

Invader_Scoot · April 2005

He's dead.

DOOManiac · April 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (im lost @ Apr 25 2005, 12:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I wonder how many people downloaded Opera 50 times or so without actually installing it just to help with getting 1 million downloads.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
I did about 8 times. :P

BadKarma · April 2005

It's not the critters that'll get ya, least not anywhere's above Georgia, it's the friggin' water. I've been diving during about mid-December and goddamnit, it's cold. Not to mention storms for Christ's sake. That said, I want to see this happen.

Ratonetwothreetwoone · April 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>"I take this challenge very seriously, but after three laps at Bislett Bad on Saturday I realized, as I was <span style='color:red'><b>heaving like a whale</b></span>, that I should probably have started the training a little bit earlier," says a slightly nervous Jon S. von Tetzchner. "I am hoping that my extra pounds of excess body fat will create enough buoyancy to keep me afloat and insulation to keep me warm."</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

isnt that a GOOD thing when it comes to swimming across an ocean?

arctica · April 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ratonetwothreetwoone @ Apr 25 2005, 06:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>"I take this challenge very seriously, but after three laps at Bislett Bad on Saturday I realized, as I was <span style='color:red'><b>heaving like a whale</b></span>, that I should probably have started the training a little bit earlier," says a slightly nervous Jon S. von Tetzchner. "I am hoping that my extra pounds of excess body fat will create enough buoyancy to keep me afloat and insulation to keep me warm."</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

isnt that a GOOD thing when it comes to swimming across an ocean?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Hypothermia is going to bite his ****. No amount of human insulation is going to save him.

BadKarma · April 2005

Oh yea, if he's not gonna wear a wetsuit, then he's done. Game over, it's nigh on suicide.

SoulSkorpion · April 2005

<s>You know, when people try to set records swimming great distances they generally don't do it solo. They'd swim inside a cage hanging off the side of a boat that keeps pace with them.</s> (Article says he's being accompanied by a rowboat. Never mind).

Anyway, I think this was more an offhand comment that got blown out of proportion than a PR stunt.

Mad_Man · April 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SoulSkorpion @ Apr 25 2005, 09:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You know, when people try to set records swimming great distances they generally don't do it solo. They'd swim inside a cage hanging off the side of a boat that keeps pace with them.

Anyway, I think this was more an offhand comment that got blown out of proportion than a PR stunt.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
thinking of that, his partner is in a dinky **** row boat that im pretty shure he is gonna lose

pardzh · April 2005

What if they expose him to lots of radioactive waste for a little bit and then he mutates into a fish-man with webbed feet and gills and special organs in his body that hold air so he can maintain a constant depth? Huh? What then?

DaJMasta · April 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (pardzh @ Apr 25 2005, 09:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> What if they expose him to lots of radioactive waste for a little bit and then he mutates into a fish-man with webbed feet and gills and special organs in his body that hold air so he can maintain a constant depth? Huh? What then?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
then he is suddenly more awesome than he currently is.

Hes not gonna die cause even if the only boat following him is a rowboat theres gonna b a whole rack of choppers, probably a fleet of ships, and like hourly arial photos of his progress. PR stunts very seldomly result in death, that would be like the opposite of the result he's shooting for.

Omg He Is Really Going To Do It!

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