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Swimming is a beautiful sport. It’s therapeutic, great for your well-being and gives you a full body workout each time you get in the pool. However, for me, it’s an extremely challenging task, but one that I am determined to complete.

Growing up, I’d always been an optimistic guy. I’d recently started my job as a motor mechanic and was looking forward to starting my life. Little did I know that everything would change in the blink of an eye.

When I was 16 years old, I experienced a life-changing motorbike accident which left me completely paralysed from the waist down. It was an extremely tough time in my life and one that I would never wish upon my worst enemy.

The easiest thing to do at the time would have been to give up. Living with a disability during the 80s was an almost impossible task, there were no ramps, no disabled access, and I just felt like I had nothing to live for.

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Dea Ann Joslin is leading the way to a dream swim for a group of her young athletes in the Westside Aquaducks Swim Club.

Joslin will take a group of her Aquaduck swimmers and coaches to Hawaii next summer to participate in the Maui Channel relay swim. The coach has already shown her young swimmers how to master that difficult swim. Earlier this month, she swam the channel solo on a Thursday and came back two days later to take a turn as part of a six-person relay team that also completed the challenge.

Joslin’s solo swim was a gift from her long-time friend and distance swimming legend Bob Roper. The relay was arranged by the South End Rowing Club of San Francisco.

Both swims were a success for Joslin. Her solo swim was just a shade below her target time of 5 hours. She finished in 4 hours, 54 minutes. Her three-men and three-women relay team won its age division.

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