the volta river is one of, perhaps the most important, internal waterway in ghana.long the volta river, it's a source of food and industry, business. it has a lot of cultural and spiritual significance as well. it also... the reason there's a volta lake at all is because of the construction of the akosombo dam. and the dam is a very important hydroelectric source of power for the country. normally, i will swim for, in the right conditions, for two or two and a half hours in the morning. if the conditions are bad, it might be more like one hour in the morning. and during that time, i'm accompanied by one of the crew members, who is in a kayak, just to make sure that i'm ok and also that i'm swimming in the right direction. when you're swimming, it's really hard to overstate how little you can see. you really can only see the water splashing, flashes of the sky. flashes of blue. flashes of green. and so it's hard to tell what direction you're swimming in. and there are times where i'm going perpendicular to the direction i want to be going in. and so, yeah, the kayak