Gertrude Ederle had her goggles sealed with paraffin to render them water tight. Gertrude possessed a contract from both the "New York Daily News" and "Chicago Tribune" when she attempted the Channel swim a second time. The money she received paid her expenses and provided her with a modest salary. It also gave her a bonus in exchange for exclusive rights to her personal story. The "Daily News" and the "Chicago Tribune" got the jump on every other newspaper in America. Another American swimmer in France in 1926 to try and swim the Channel was Lillian Cannon from Baltimore. She was also
Gertrude Ederle Mortimer, was first broadcast on September 1, 2010, and repeated on January 23, 2012. It dramatises Ederle's record-breaking crossing of the English Channel. Her name makes a cameo appearance in Disney's The Princess and the Frog in a newspaper article being read by character Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff. A film adaptation, "Young Woman and the Sea" based on the book of the same name by Glenn Stout, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer with a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson, was set up at Paramount Pictures in 2015 and remains in development . She broke the Record set by all men before