![]() The legend had the swimmer cross the stretch to reach his lover, Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, who lived on the European side. ![]() She was also drawn to the history of the Black Sea region, including such events as Lord Byron’s 1810 swim across the strait inspired by the Greek myth of Leander. Water flows in both directions along the three-mile strait from the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean Sea. She participated in the geographically and culturally significant event, “because I wanted a challenging swim,” she said. Sherr used the lifeguarded, marked waters of Albert’s Landing Beach in Amagansett to train for the iconic Hellespont open water swim from Europe to Asia that she entered last August, in Turkey. ![]() “I am so impressed with them,” she said on Friday. Also given praise in the book was the town’s junior lifeguard program, which made headlines this week when one of its trainees saved a drowning swimmer. ![]() The former WABC television correspondent was speaking of the East Hampton area, which she calls home for most of the summer. “Not knowing how to swim here, is like not knowing how to drive at the Indy 500,” wrote Lynn Sherr in her newest book, “Swim: Why We Love the Water.” ![]()
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