{"id":516,"date":"2010-09-17T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?516"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:57:17","slug":"swimming-challenge-for-help-for-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/swimming-challenge-for-help-for-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming challenge for Help for Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth are going to support soldiers with a 10.5-mile swim around Lake Windermere.<\/p>\n<p>The 21 divers will head to the Lake District for the challenge, which will raise money for Help for Heroes and Project Vernon, Portsmouth.co.uk reported.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the Royal Navy service personnel will complete the swim on September 25th, with the whole event expected to take eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is something that we have wanted to do for a while and, being divers, a sponsored swim was the most 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