By 17, Lynne Cox had already swum the English Channel twice. She’s also swam in water that’s 32 degrees. Escaped shark attacks, saved whales. Lynne has swum the Nile, the Bering Strait, the Cape of Good Hope.
Throughout her lifetime, she’s logged nearly 55,000 miles in the water. That’s around the globe…twice.
All to say: Lynne knows a thing or two about feats of athletic achievement. So when she saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning, Lynne was transfixed.
TALES OF AL is the inspiring story of Lynne’s adventures on Italy’s Lake Idroscalo, at the famed Italian School of Water Rescue Dogs (SICS), which has trained over 300 dogs for sea, land, and air rescue (about 30 rescues are carried out along the Italian coast during each swimming season). There, Lynne meets the dog at the center of our story:
Al, an irresistible (and slightly untrainable) chocolate Newfoundland. And follows her journey to becoming an expertly trained—and highly specialized—water rescue dog.
LYNNE COX was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California.
She set open-water swimming records all over the world, swimming without a wet suit.
She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and has had Her articles appear in many publications, among them The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
Cox lives in Long Beach, California and continues to swim every chance she gets.
www.lynnecox.com
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