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Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA

Posted by Zonk on from the friday-morning-project dept.

Viggeh! writes "An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland. The new browser was released Tuesday and was downloaded 600.000 times in the first 48 hours since release. The challenge will end on Saturday at 0900 a.m. CET, so if you want to try out some new software and make the CEO stick to his big words, download it at Opera's webpage(direct link)."

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  1. Re:Yeah, but which norway by TheWormThatFlies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sure enough, there's Norway, Maine. Shouldn't take him that long.

    ...except for that stopover in Iceland (described as "his home country", so no wriggling out of that one).

  2. Not possible by hanssprudel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In case anybody is wondering - of course that cannot be done. While the atlantic ocean has been swum, it was done by swimming six hours a day in two hour intervals (and took almost 80 days). And the person who did it was a highly trained swimmer, not a corporate CEO.

    Also, going via Iceland might be a bad idea - since in the north atlantic he will freeze to death without a dry suit. And try surface swimming six hours with a dry suit some time...