'I was feeling really uninspired last year and was finding it difficult to do anything. I needed a change and to do something different - so I thought "why not now."
'I left my job and started assembling my team around me. I have always been fit and done a few triathlons and other events - but obviously a challenge of this scale needs professional assistance.
'Training has been really tough - but it's my full-time job.
'I hope to be back on dry land by New Year's Eve - I will be helped along by the sea and should be going at around 4.5 knots.'
Mr Hooper, who lives with his daughter and partner Kate Lewington, 39, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, has been training for over a year - starting with daily swims of about 4-7miles for five-months.
At the start of this year, he moved out in to open water - training in the Mediterranean Ocean and aiming to cover 2.8million meters of swimming, about 115,000 lengths of a 25m pool, by November.
The father says what makes his trip different is the fact the entire adventure will be streamed online - thanks to new technology by SmackDab.
This means viewers will be able to watch every second of his trip will be shown on the trip's official Facebook page.
'I was feeling really uninspired last year and was finding it difficult to do anything. I needed a change and to do something different - so I thought "why not now."
'I left my job and started assembling my team around me. I have always been fit and done a few triathlons and other events - but obviously a challenge of this scale needs professional assistance.
'Training has been really tough - but it's my full-time job.
'I hope to be back on dry land by New Year's Eve - I will be helped along by the sea and should be going at around 4.5 knots.'
Mr Hooper, who lives with his daughter and partner Kate Lewington, 39, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, has been training for over a year - starting with daily swims of about 4-7miles for five-months.
At the start of this year, he moved out in to open water - training in the Mediterranean Ocean and aiming to cover 2.8million meters of swimming, about 115,000 lengths of a 25m pool, by November.
The father says what makes his trip different is the fact the entire adventure will be streamed online - thanks to new technology by SmackDab.
This means viewers will be able to watch every second of his trip will be shown on the trip's official Facebook page.
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