English Channel latter part of the 19th century when Captain Matthew Webb made the first observed and unassisted swim across the Strait of Dover, swimming from England to France on 24–25 August 1875 in 21 hours 45 minutes. In 1927, at a time when fewer than ten swimmers (including the first woman, Gertrude Ederle in 1926) had managed to emulate the feat and many dubious claims were being made, the Channel Swimming Association (CSA) was founded to authenticate and ratify swimmers' claims to have swum the Channel and to verify crossing times. The CSA was dissolved in 1999 and was succeeded by
The Man Who Was Never Born The Man Who Was Never Born "The Man Who Was Never Born" (original title: "Cry of the Unborn") is an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. It was first broadcast on October 28, 1963, during the first season. An astronaut returning to Earth is flung into the distant future, where he finds the mutated remnants of humanity living on a ruined Earth. Having accidentally travelled through time, astronaut Joseph Reardon lands on Earth in the year 2148 A.D. to find it a desolate realm. He meets Andro, a mutated human stricken with a disfiguring disease for which