Ella Mills (20) was studying at New York's Columbia University when she drowned in the Potomac River near Washington DC in September 2023
Ella Mills was studying at New York's Columbia University when she drowned in the Potomac River near Washington DC in September 2023A father whose daughter died in a kayaking accident in the US has set a world ‘aqua marathon’ world record to raise funds for the charity that helped repatriate her body back to Ireland.
"It's the US, she died in the administrative capital, she was fully insured, we had a lot of help from Columbia University and the liaison based in Washington was incredible. "People were suggesting that, if we had any trouble, these people have the expertise because they've been doing it for a number of years," he said.Mr Mills said the aqua marathon saw him complete 844 lengths of a Dublin swimming pool."You just keep running up and down for as long as it takes - it was 844 lengths ."I'd been in conversation with someone who asked if there's any way we wanted to help fundraise The Kevin Bell Trust.
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