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Update - We are starting our swim at 0030hrs on Sunday 16th September!

Watch our progress live on the internet,  txt us messages of support and see up to date photos of the swim at the following link: http://www.amslivetrac.com/ 

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Our team is a group of Microsoft employees based out of Reading, Berkshire.

In September 2007 we will be undertaking a team challenge to raise money for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust.  The trust provides critical support to the emergency services in our the surrounding area and the service it provides is funded only by charitable donations.

Our challenge is to complete a relay swim of the English Channel.  The shortest distance across the Channel is from Shakespeare Beach, Dover, to Cap Gris Nez (the headland halfway between Calais and Boulogne). This distance is 18.2 nautical miles which is approximately 21 land miles.  We estimate this distance will take us around 14 hours.

The challenge will be completed on one day between 17th and 21st September.  Exactly when will depend upon weather conditions.

Similar rules apply for team swims as for solo crossings.  No wetsuits or other flotation devices are permitted nor physical contact with the guide boat.   Each team member will swim in relay for an hour then continue in rotation until we reach France!   We will have to contend with sea temperatures of 18 Degrees C,  swells, jellyfish and of course anything else we may come across in the crystal clear waters of the busiest waterway in the world.

Microsoft will match any donations, made pound for pound.

Many thanks

Best of luck to you!! Donation by Brittony King 29/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck all- think it will be baltic but atleast it will keep you moving fast!! Joxx Donation by Jo Macleod 28/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck!!! Donation by Richard 28/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good look Steve! Doesnt sound hard at all really....! :-) Donation by Lucie Michaelson 24/08/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

What a great thing to do. Look out for the ferries! Donation by Matt Graham 24/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck with the swim Jim - avoid the Cornish sharks! Donation by Cousin Juce 23/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck everyone Donation by Mark Revill 20/08/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck !!! Donation by Chris & Sarah Bristow 19/08/07  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Have fun and take care. Good luck Donation by Graham Empson 17/08/07  

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Good Luck! Donation by Jules Brown 17/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good Luck Folks!! from your ex-team member Donation by trish 17/08/07  

£100.00 + £28.21 Gift Aid

Bought any floats for the chopper? Donation by JeffS. 17/08/07  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Good Luck Donation by Thomas Cheney 17/08/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good Luck Team!! Donation by Alex Ray 16/08/07  

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Good luck George and the rest of the team Donation by Lucy and Gary 15/08/07  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Best wishes; I'll be cheering you on from Redmond Donation by Paulfo 15/08/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck and good swimming! Donation by Judy & Alan 14/08/07  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

Good swimming and good luck Donation by Steve & Carolyn Rebstein 14/08/07  

£50.00

Hope you hit your target and survive! Donation by Phil Hewinson 14/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

All the best and don't swallow channel water Donation by Steve Chawner 14/08/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

good luck George x Donation by kate leeming 13/08/07  

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Good luck all! Donation by Iain Fletcher 13/08/07  

£10.00

Good luck :o) Donation by Pip 13/08/07  

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Oh My God! This is amazing. Good luck - keep warm:-)! Donation by Simone 12/08/07  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

you realise you can't swim in the Dover Strait, you just go through the motions... :) Donation by John Watkins 08/08/07  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Great cause...all the very best Donation by Vince 08/08/07  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Good Luck folks.. xx Donation by Tracy 08/08/07  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good Luck all of you Donation by Karen Hathaway 08/08/07  

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What d'you think they built a tunnel for? Fools. Donation by Martin Gaunt 07/08/07  

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be cool mark...like always Donation by David Bryan 06/08/07  

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