凯瑟琳·布里德（Catherine Breed）正在圣地亚哥附近的太平洋中游泳，距离成为首位游完加利福尼亚州全海岸线的人仅剩约三天，这时她的伴随船船长在距离约100码（约91米）处发现了一条鲭鲨。
Catherine Breed was in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, about three days away from becoming the first person ever to swim the entire California coastline, when the captain of her support boat spotted a mako shark roughly 100 yards away.
鲭鲨被认为是海洋中游速最快的鲨鱼。但对大多数人来说本应是令人恐惧的时刻，却几乎未让布里德女士动摇。这位耐力运动员自7月1日从加利福尼亚-俄勒冈边境开启海上征程以来，已遭遇过数百种其他海洋生物、强风暴和难以预测的洋流。
Mako sharks are considered the fastest sharks in the ocean. But what would have been a terrifying moment for most people hardly fazed Ms. Breed, an endurance athlete who had already encountered hundreds of other sea creatures, powerful storms and unpredictable currents since her ocean odyssey began at the California-Oregon border on July 1.
布里德女士称鲨鱼目击事件“只是旅程的一小部分”。尽管如此，船员们并未冒险。“我想在我看到鲨鱼后大约10秒内，她就已经上船了，”船长梅西·布里斯托（Maisie Bristow）说。
Ms. Breed called the shark sightings “a small part of the journey.”Still, her crew took no chances. “I think within like 10 seconds of me seeing the shark, she was on the boat,” said the captain, Maisie Bristow.
布里德女士于周一上午完成了这段约890英里（约1432公里）的航程，在加利福尼亚-墨西哥边境的蒂华纳（Tijuana）近海约两英里处停下。她与一小群朋友和船员登上那艘陪伴她整个探险过程的52英尺（约15.8米）帆船，庆祝这一历史性壮举。
Ms. Breed completed the roughly 890-mile voyage on Monday morning, stopping about two miles offshore from Tijuana at the California-Mexico border. She celebrated her historic feat with a small group of friends and crew members aboard the 52-foot sailboat that has been her floating home throughout the expedition.
“完成感觉很超现实，这近四个月来一直是我的全部生活，”布里德女士在结束后不久通过短信说道。
“It feels surreal being done, this has been my entire life for nearly four months,” Ms. Breed said in a text message shortly after finishing.
耐力运动员凯瑟琳·布里德于7月1日从加利福尼亚-俄勒冈边境出发。
Catherine Breed, an endurance athlete, began her journey on July 1 at the California-Oregon border.
布里德女士在游泳的日子里平均每天游行超过九英里（约14.5公里）。
Ms. Breed averaged over nine miles on the days that she swam.
整个名为“游加利福尼亚”（Swim California）的探险历时100多天，因安排休息日和恶劣天气，布里德女士有18天未能下水。她在游泳的日子里平均每天游行超过九英里。
The entire expedition, called Swim California, took over 100 days, with scheduled rest days and dangerous weather keeping Ms. Breed out of the water for 18 of those days. She averaged more than nine miles on the days that she swam.
“她是一位不可思议的运动员，拥有令人难以置信的精神意志，”世界公开水域游泳协会（WOWSA）执行总监奎因·菲茨杰拉德说，该协会正在认证布里德女士的这次游泳。“但对于这样一个雄心勃勃的目标，在多变且不可预测的水域中，在一个厄尔尼诺年，尽管她才华横溢，成功也并非板上钉钉。”
“She is an incredible athlete with just incredible mental determination,” said Quinn Fitzgerald, the executive director of the World Open Water Swimming Association, or WOWSA, which is ratifying Ms. Breed’s swim. “But with something as ambitious as this in dynamic and unpredictable water, in an El Niño year, it was not a foregone conclusion despite her talent.”
布里德女士出生并成长于旧金山湾区，从小就对游泳充满热情，最终获得奖学金进入加州大学伯克利分校游泳，主修预科医学，两次入选全美最佳大学生运动员阵容，并成为美国国家游泳队队员。
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Ms. Breed has had a passion for swimming since she was young and eventually received a scholarship to swim at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a pre-med major, a two-time all-American swimmer and a member of the U.S. national swim team.
在完成多次横渡英吉利海峡、环游曼哈顿岛等马拉松游泳后，她将目光投向了加利福尼亚海岸线。
After completing several marathon swims across the English Channel, around Manhattan and elsewhere, she turned her sights on the California coastline.
布里德女士和四名船员住在一艘52英尺长的帆船上，夜间尽可能在海湾和港口避风。
Ms. Breed and a crew of four lived aboard a 52-foot sailboat, sheltering at night in coves and harbors when possible.
“我必须不停地吃东西。早上吃，游泳时吃，上岸后马上吃。我其实真的很期待能再次为了快乐而进食，”布里德女士说。计划中的休息日和恶劣天气让布里德女士有18天无法下水。布里德女士从小就对游泳充满热情。
“I have had to constantly be eating. I eat in the morning. I eat during my swim. I eat right when I get out. I’m actually really looking forward to eating for joy again,” Ms. Breed said. Scheduled rest days and dangerous weather kept Ms. Breed out of the water for 18 days. Ms. Breed has had a passion for swimming since she was young.
“我正在以一种前所未有的方式体验海岸线的各个部分。没人会沿着加州海岸慢慢游过去，”她在6月出发前对《纽约时报》说。
“I’m getting to experience parts of the coast that have never been experienced in this way before. No one goes slowly down the California coast,” she told The New York Times in June, before her journey began.
布里德女士在游泳过程中遭遇了各种各样的条件。在加州北海岸附近，她在华氏48度（约摄氏8.9度）的水中游泳，在最冷的日子里，在水中待上几个小时后回到船上时浑身剧烈颤抖。临近游泳结束时，水温达到了舒适的华氏75度（约摄氏23.9度），尽管布里德女士仍穿着湿衣以防晒，并服用了一疗程抗生素以防止被含有污水的海水感染。
Ms. Breed encountered a wide range of conditions during the swim. Near the north coast of California, she swam in water that was 48 degrees Fahrenheit, shivering badly on the coldest days when she got back on the boat after hours in the water. Near the end of the swim, the water reached a balmy 75 degrees, though Ms. Breed still wore a wet suit for sun protection and took a course of antibiotics to protect against water polluted with sewage.
在抵达终点大约一周前，飓风“瑞秋”袭向南加利福尼亚的达纳角，当时布里德正在水中。她回忆说，风力在几分钟内迅速增强。
About a week before reaching the finish line, Hurricane Rachel swept toward Dana Point in Southern California while Ms. Breed was in the water. The wind rose rapidly in a matter of minutes, she recalled.
“风暴来得非常快，而且比预期早了很多个小时，所以我们不得不终止（当天的游泳）”，她说。船只安全返回岸边，布里德在飓风登陆那天休息。第二天她又回到了水中。
“The storm came really fast and many hours early, and so we had to call it,” she said. The boat made it safely back to shore, and Ms. Breed rested the day the hurricane hit. She was back in the water the next day.
但也许最大的挑战是强劲且不可预测的洋流，部分原因是今年强烈的厄尔尼诺现象。游泳仅19天，在北加利福尼亚的门多西诺角附近，布里德的速度降至每小时仅1英里左右——而她通常的速度是每小时2到3英里——因为她在对抗一股向北流动的强劲洋流。整次探险耗时超过100天。布里德仍然游完了每一段距离，只是方向并不总是相同。也许最大的挑战是强劲且不可预测的洋流。
But perhaps the greatest challenge was the strong and unpredictable ocean currents, in part because of the intense El Niño conditions this year. Only 19 days into the swim, off Cape Mendocino in Northern California, Ms. Breed’s pace slowed to barely 1 mile per hour — compared with her typical 2 to 3 m.p.h. — as she fought a strong current traveling north. The entire expedition took over 100 days. Ms. Breed still swam every bit of the distance, just not always in the same direction. Perhaps the greatest challenge was the strong and unpredictable ocean currents.
在已经遭遇其他强劲洋流后，她和船员意识到，如果以降低的速度继续前进，探险时间可能会翻倍，导致无法在冬季来临前、在预算和补给耗尽前完成。
Having already encountered other powerful currents, she and the crew realized that proceeding at a slower pace could double the length of the expedition, making it impossible to finish before winter with their budget and supplies.
为了不放弃游泳，团队想出了一个变通办法：在存在强劲逆流的路段，布里德改变方向游泳。她的伴随船将她从前一终点向南运送，然后布里德向北游回该终点。这样她仍然游完了每一段距离，只是方向并不总是相同。
Rather than abandon the swim, the team devised a workaround: Ms. Breed reversed course on sections of the swim where there were powerful currents moving against her. Her support boat would take her south from the previous end point, and then Ms. Breed would swim north to that point. This way she still swam every bit of the distance, just not always in the same direction.
菲茨杰拉德表示，这种战术有先例。2025年，英国运动员罗斯·埃奇利环游冰岛游泳时，也曾在某些路段改变方向。世界公开水域游泳协会（WOWSA）委员会裁定，改变方向不会使其游泳资格取消。
Mr. Fitzgerald says this tactic has precedent. In 2025, when the British athlete Ross Edgley swam around Iceland, he also reversed course for some portions. A WOWSA committee decided that reversing directions would not disqualify his swim.
“归根结底，这是出于安全考量，”菲茨杰拉德说。“我们针对这次游泳再次进行了讨论，得出了相同的结论。”布里德在沿海组织并参与了10场社区活动，以提高人们对海洋保护问题的关注。
“Ultimately, it was a safety consideration,” Mr. Fitzgerald said. “We discussed it again for this swim, and the same determination was reached.”Ms. Breed organized and participated in 10 community events along the coast to raise awareness about marine conservation issues.
“加州游泳号”是一艘52英尺长的帆船，在整个探险过程中一直是布里德的漂浮之家。
Swim California is the 52-foot sailboat that has been Ms. Breed’s floating home throughout the expedition.
在海上的日子里，布里德和船员们看到了数百头鲸鱼、海豚和海狮。周一，布里德在靠近墨西哥边境的地方结束了她的历史性旅程。
During their time at sea, Ms. Breed and the crew saw hundreds of whales, dolphins and sea lions. Ms. Breed finished her historic journey near the Mexico border on Monday.
布里德的两名船员担任了这次游泳的官方观察员。每当她在水中游泳半小时，他们就会记录她的GPS坐标，以及游泳过程的照片和视频。世界公开水域游泳协会（WOWSA）的一个委员会将审核日志，然后再认证这次游泳。
Two of Ms. Breed’s crew members functioned as official observers for the swim. For each half-hour that she was in the water, they recorded her GPS coordinates, as well as photos and video of the swim. A committee from WOWSA will review the logs before ratifying the swim.
布里德在……上记录了她的旅程。她还在沿海不同地点组织并参与了多场社区活动，以提高人们对海洋保护问题的关注。
Ms. Breed chronicled her journey on She also organized and participated in several community events at different locations along the coast to raise awareness about marine conservation issues.
在海上的日子里，布里德和船员们看到了数百头鲸鱼、海豚和海狮。他们还遇到了四条大白鲨，每次都将她从水中拉了上来。
During their time at sea, Ms. Breed and the crew saw hundreds of whales, dolphins and sea lions. They also encountered four great white sharks and pulled her from the water each time.
“有令人惊叹的时刻，”布里德说。“有几头鲸鱼陪我游泳，海豚陪我游泳。那些时刻真的很特别。”布里德在开始探险前辞去了医疗机器人公司的工作，她不确定接下来会做什么。但有一件事她特别期待：不用再每天摄入那么多卡路里了。
“There were amazing moments,” Ms. Breed said. “I’ve had a few whales swim with me, dolphins swim with me. Those moments are really special.”Ms. Breed quit her job at a medical robotics company before starting the expedition, and she’s not sure what she’ll do next. But there’s one thing she’s especially looking forward to: not having to eat so many calories every day.