The team hope to complete the attempt within 16 hours to raise money for Dementia UK.
He added friends and family considered the group to be "a bit mad".
He plans to swim the distance - which is 21 miles but works out at about 30 miles , given it is not direct - together with Theresa Tomlinson, 50, from Retford, Phil Field, 57, from Newark and Anne-Marie Lawrence, 57, from Stanton by Bridge.
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