Untethered – Melanie Barratt Becomes the First Blind Woman to Swim the English Channel | Sky Sports

Melanie Barratt, a gold-medal profitable Paralympian, swims tethered to an elastic bungee in a small pool on her personal. However, after 20 years of becoming private targets round motherhood, new ambitions are burning – she’s determined to strive open-water swimming. Being blind, the one approach to do that is to ask for assist, however asking for assistance is a fancy and infrequently controversial subject for disabled individuals. Melanie has at all times hidden her incapacity due to social stigma and internalised ableism, however the lure of latest adventures is larger than the disgrace she feels. What occurs subsequent surpasses all expectations as she not solely finds group, but in addition an growing satisfaction in her id as a disabled girl. With the assist of her ‘Ironfish’ pals, she not solely learns to swim in open water however enters the report books by changing into the primary blind girl to swim the English Channel.