türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Diken website 20 October 2025)
Fishermen agree: "These Europeans are nuts."
Jari Cennet Tammi, a 66-year-old swimmer who set out from Istanbul
to swim from Turkey to Sweden, has reached Çanakkale. Tammi came
to Turkey in 2023 to explore new places after swimming 541
kilometers from Stockholm to Helsinki, Finland. He began swimming
from Istanbul to Stockholm last year with the idea of swimming all
the way and managed to reach Çanakkale despite some setbacks.
The Swedish swimmer also carries canned fish, hazelnuts, dates,
biscuits, corn, and soup noodles in his bag, as well as small camping
stove for cooking, a phone, a solar panel to charge his GPS device,
a sufficient amount of water, and various vitamins. Tammi aims to
reach Sweden in 2036 (!).
What to do will all that spare time?
His thoughts:
* Swimming on the same beach, in the same sea, is boring. You see
new things every day as you travel this route. I'm 66 years old. I'll be
77 when I get to Stockholm. It's a very long journey (true!)
* I started swimming in Istanbul because Alanya is so far away.
I decided to swim in the Marmara Sea because I thought it would be
much easier. It was supposed to feel like a vacation, but there were
winds, big waves, and other problems. It's 18,000 kilometers from
here to Stockholm.
* I swim 1,500 kilometers a year. It would take me 2036 to swim
from here to Stockholm. I can't lead a normal life. I can't live in an
apartment.
* I've been doing this since 2021, and it's become a part of my life.
I've been living in a tent for four years. I don't see myself returning to
a normal life. My tent is my home.
Lots of no-swim parts. Hmmmmm...
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