Show Channel Swimmers Make Use of Tides BOULOGNE June 5 S AP Ar- Ar Swimmers att attempting to cross the English channel chann 1 this year favor a aline aline aline line of or attack mapped out by a landlubber to cope with the tle tides as against the advice of or both French and English pilots The course and the proper time of entry Into the water have been worked out by a railroad engineer M M. I. I Douai who has been a channel swim fan for several years Douai's plan was adopted by both of or the Argentine Argentina and Charles ToUt of or Boston who covered covered cov coy ered the distance in 1923 in much quicker time than tIan the three men who preceded them in crossing tha channel Whereas s seamen have maintaIned maintained main main- tamed that swimmers should en enter enter enter en- en ter the water with the falling tide plan calls for the start to tobe tobe tobe be made four tour hours before full tide at a certain spot pol near Cape Griz Nez Here Hera an ebb current carries them toward the channel until a arising arising arising rising tide takes them toward the North sea After Arter between fifteen and seventeen hours In the water the tho swimmer is then caught by an ebb tide and borne toward the English English En En- glish gush coast |