By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
Nine-time Olympic Gold Medalist Caeleb Dressel has long been known to generate absurd amounts of power in the water, but how does that fare against some of the most powerful ocean creatures that you can catch with a fishing tackle?
In a YouTube video from BlacktipH, one of the largest fishing channels on the platform with over five million subscribers, Dressel hooked up to several different rods and reels, varying in strength, to see how good of a fight he puts up compared to the likes of some of the fish that one may find when fishing out in the open water.
This is not the first time we have seen an Olympic swimmer take on ocean animals, as Michael Phelps previously “raced” a great white shark in a speed test. This test was centered more on the power Dressel generates than on his speed.
Dressel was hooked up to a harness, not like the belts that hook you up to weight towers in a swim practice, but an upper body harness, which was attached to the various rods and fishing lines. He also brought his vast collection of Olympic hardware, giving himself a side challenge: for each level he completed, he would earn his medals back.
The tests progressively got more difficult, beginning with eight and a half pounds of drag. Before jumping in and testing his own strength, Dressel put a rod in his hands, catching a seven-and-a-half-pound Bonita fish, which was pulling more than its own body weight on the line.
The first test, Dressel, wearing a snorkel, was tasked with swimming 50 yards, which he appeared to complete effortlessly, though he said it was about a “6 out of 10” on the difficulty scale.
Moving up in resistance, Dressel was tested with about 20 pounds of drag, or what they compare in the video to “Tuna Drag”. Once again, Dressel looked to complete the challenge with no issue, even pulling the boat a bit in his swim. Once he got back to the boat, he mentioned that this swim was significantly harder, about an 8.2 out of 10 in difficulty, according to his huffing and puffing.
After the “tuna” challenge, Dressel shared that he was determined to conquer the next challenge; this one was for his Paris gold. He explained that it was because his son was in the crowd to witness it.
That next challenge was a similar drag weight, though this time with a monofilament (mono) line, which is a stretchy nylon strand, acting more like a resistance band, rather than the braided line from before, which is made up of multiple woven synthetic fibers with no stretch.
For the 3rd test, Dressel opted to swim it butterfly and continued to show off his raw power, though he admitted he felt like he hit a wall. That test was a two-part test, as he was now pulling about 50 pounds of drag, similar to that of a big marlin, widely known as one of the most powerful game fish in the ocean.
It was here that Dressel was only able to pull about six inches of line, and he swam for only about 15 seconds. For reference, a big marlin can pull that weight and fight off a catch for an hour, while a swordfish can pull that line for upwards of ten hours.
Dressel then gave it another try, this time with fins, working pretty much entirely underwater, and he pulled significantly more line, about 10 yards according to the video.
The American sprint star was not done there, this time adding paddles, which really put him at about the maximum power he could generate. Dressel was pulling some serious line, even turning the boat in the process.
His final test was trying to pull a single inch of line on a Goliath grouper tackle, which is about 120 pounds of drag, more than double what he had previously pulled. He decided on a new strategy: similar to the giant fish, he was going to swim straight downwards.
Once that test resulted in pretty much no progress, Dressel went back to the fins and paddles. He tried going straight down once again; this time he pulled a few inches of line.
This rather unorthodox experiment further showcases the raw power that Dressel possesses, while providing a clear comparison to some of the biggest fish in the ocean.
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