Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LIVERPOOL, England, June 28 (UPI) -- A British man plans to raise money for a hospice by swimming across the River Mersey pushing a refrigerator on a surfboard. Paul McKelvey, 38, has spent six months training for the July 8 stunt. The retired Royal Marine said he only learned how treacherous the crossing is once he had already agreed to undertake the fundraising effort for Zoe's Place Hospice in West Derby, the Liverpool ECHO reported. Advertisement The newspaper said the Mersey has the fastest undercurrent of any river in Britain, with the water just below the surface flowing at six knots out into Liverpool Bay. "I climbed Snowdon with a fridge on my back two years ago and I thought the swim would be much easier, but that is definitely not the case," he told the ECHO. "Because of the strength of the current it is not possible to pull the fridge, if I tried that I would be pulled in the Irish Sea in no time at all."
