Swimmers fight rough currents , nausea in trip across English Channel . Comment: `` We got every layer of clothing we could on him , and we had to give him bear hugs to give him some body heat , '' said Gardiner , another graduate of the Naval Academy , who is studying at Queens University in Belfast , Ireland , on a Navy Marshall Scholarship . Two Rhodes Scholars , 3 Naval Academy grads say swim also honors vets on D-Day . `` I felt like an ant in a toilet bowl , '' swimmer says .
Swimmers fight rough currents , nausea in trip across English Channel . Comment: Two Rhodes Scholars , 3 Naval Academy grads say swim also honors vets on D-Day . `` I felt like an ant in a toilet bowl , '' swimmer says .