Father and son fail in cross-channel bid

A father-and-son swimming pair made it almost all the way across the Channel but ended the effort a few miles short of the coastline of France.

Pennsylvanian Marty O’Connor, 46, and his 22-year-old son, Steve, who had hoped to become the first father and son to swim the channel together, said they were being tossed around by four and five foot swells, pummelled by choppy conditions and struggling against the tide on Sunday.