When should you start training with the goal of swimming across the Gulf of Gdańsk? Is physical preparation enough, or is it worth beginning mental training already now? What equipment works best in the challenging waters of the Baltic? We talk to one of the “Beasts of the Baltic,” Martyna Górajewska, who swam across the Gulf to find out for herself what it’s like and who, together with Piotr Biankowski and Aleksandra Kabelis, prepares crossings for other thrill-seeking amateurs.