Charlie Vercoe
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799 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Charlie Vercoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But if you get conditions that are poor, it could very easily take six hours.
Whoa.
Do you ever see sharks out there?
I've never seen one during the race.
I saw one when I was training the lead up in Hawaii two years ago.
Just alongside Oahu, I saw probably the biggest shark I've ever seen actually.
It was about a four to five meter tiger that was just right alongside my board.
I remember seeing the head and the width of the head because the tigers have that really square jaw.
It was right next to me and the tail wasn't even at the front of my board.
The size of my board made me go, this thing is a seriously big animal.
Did it make you go quicker?
Definitely, definitely.
The funny thing was is my dad was out there for that one as well on his ski paddling behind me and was shouting out, there's a shark up there, Charlie, turn away.
And the year before, I'd had a big fright.
on that exact same paddle of what turned out to just be a palm frong.
I thought it was a shark and had a little panic and I was just going, no, it's another palm frong in the water.
And he was right in that example.
So it definitely made me paddle quickly afterwards.
Okay.
So my plan for that day was to do a three-hour paddle because it's such a conditions-dependent race.
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