At the beginning of this week, military Davy Billau from Bruges swam from De Panne to Knokke-Heist, as a tribute to his deceased parents. Although he almost caught a record (three minutes less fast than record holder Marieke Blomme) turned his performance worse than foreseen.
Upon arrival in Knokke-Heist, he has to go to Urgent. “My body temperature was barely 28 degrees, there was moisture in my lungs and I had cardiac arrhythmias,” he says by telephone from the hospital, where he is still recovering from pneumonia.