T HIS entertaining gentleman is Otto Kemmerich, German professional swimmer, who spent his Easter holidays in a tank with a tame seal, establishing a “new world’s record” for an endurance swim. Sad to relate, the seal became horribly bored with the proceedings, and climbed out of the tank after a day’s immersion. He could not be coaxed back. His master stayed on for 46 hours in all.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 10
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67THIS entertaining gentleman is Otto Kemmerich, German professional swimmer, who spent his Easter holidays in a tank with a tame seal, establishing a “new world’s record” for an endurance swim. Sad to relate, the seal became horribly bored with the proceedings, and climbed out of the tank after a day’s immersion. He could not be coaxed back. His master stayed on for 46 hours in all. Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 10
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