Synchronized Swimmers Can't Be Paid Enough Money to Swim in The Gowanus Canal

Photo by Jackie Snow, Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair recently profiled two Brooklyn synchronized swimmers, Nicole Sciarrillo and Nicole Salm, who founded a synchronized swim team called the Brooklyn Peaches nearly a year ago. 

When asked if they'd ever perform in local waters, they admitted to swimming on the Bay Side of the Rockaways, and emerging from the water dripping in gasoline from nearby boats. "It was just disgusting," they told the magazine. "But it was so worth it. It was so much fun. It was mind over matter."

But was it fun enough to test a more daring body of water? One that would, say, undoubtedly turn swimmers into radioactive sea monsters?  

"There was a director that I was talking to and he was like, "I’ve always wanted to shoot synchronized swimmers in the Gowanus Canal." I was like, "You could not pay me enough money." I would not swim in that canal for the life of me."

Good call, ladies.