‘Every time I breathed, I saw him beside me’: The love, fear, and endurance behind this Bengaluru couple’s 11-hour, 22-km swim from Sri Lanka to India |
At 4:30 a.m., somewhere between Sri Lanka and India, the sea was pitch-black.The only thing visible ahead was a blinking light in the distance.Around them was nothing except dark water and silence.Every few strokes, something brushed past their bodies in the water. At one point, flying fish began colliding with them in the dark. They…