Feats
Some of the most commonly pursued challenges on Open Water Swimming include:
- Triple Crown - 239 recorded individuals
- English Channel (34km between Dover, England and Calais, France)
- Manhattan Island Circumnavigation (46km around Manhattan)
- Catalina Channel (33km between Catalina and San Pedro CA)
- Grand Slam - 25 recorded individuals
- All of the above plus Tampa Bay Marathon Swim (37km in Tampa Bay)
- Triple Break - 16 recorded individuals
- Alcatraz Escape (2km between Alcatraz Island and San Francisco CA)
- Rottnest Channel (20km between Perth WA and Rottnest Island)
- Robben Escape (7km between Robben Island and Cape Town)
- California Triple Crown - 16 recorded individuals
- Catalina Channel (33km between Catalina and San Pedro CA)
- Santa Barbara Channel (20km between Anacapa and Oxnard CA)
- Lake Tahoe (34km across the lengthwise axis of Tahoe CA)
- New Zealand Triple Crown - 5 recorded individuals
- Cook Strait (26km between North and South Island in NZ)
- Lake Taupo (40km across the lengthwise axis of Taupo in NZ)
- Foveaux Strait (26km between Stewart and South Island in NZ)
- Lake Monsters Triple Crown - No recorded individuals
- Loch Ness (37km across the lengthwise axis of Ness in Scotland)
- Lake Tahoe (34km across the lengthwise axis of Tahoe CA)
- Lac Memphremagog (40km between Newport VT and Magog QC)
- Oceans Seven - 18 recorded individuals
- English Channel (34km between Dover, England and Calais, France)
- Strait of Gibraltar (14km between Tarifa, Spain and Point Cires, Morocco)
- Catalina Channel (33km between Catalina and San Pedro CA)
- Cook Strait (26km between North and South Island in NZ)
- Molokai / Kaiwi Channel (42km between Molokai and Oahu HI)
- North Channel (35km between Northern Ireland and Scotland)
- Tsugaru Channel (20km between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan)
- Still Water 8 - No recorded individuals
- Loch Ness (37km across the lengthwise axis of Ness in Scotland)
- Lake Windemere (17km across the lengthwise axis of Windemere in England)
- Lake Zurich (26km the lengthwise axis of Zurich in Switzerland)
- Lake Tahoe (34km across the lengthwise axis of Tahoe CA)
- Lake Baikal (11km across the lengthwise axis of Baikal in Russia)
- Lake Taupo (40km across the lengthwise axis of Taupo in NZ)
- Lake Ontario (51km across the lengthwise axis of Ontario in Canada)
- Lake Titicaca (7km across the lengthwise axis of Titicaca in Bolivia/Peru)
- Continents Seven - 1 recorded individual (Me!)
- Major swim / event in each of the seven continents within one year, incl. Antarctica
- Oceans Grand Slam - No recorded individuals (ongoing)
- Oceans Seven + Ice KM anywhere within the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle.
- Islands Seven (aka Ocho Islas) in the Canary Islands, Spain - No recorded individuals (ongoing)
- La Graciosa - Lanzarote (2km) - Several recorded individuals
- Lanzarote - Fuerteventura (15km) - Few recorded individuals
- Gomera - Tenerife (40km) - 4 recorded individuals
- Tenerife - Gran Canaria (70km) - 1 recorded individual
- La Palma - Gomera (60 km) - No recorded individuals
- Hierro - La Palma (68km) - No recorded individual
- Fuerteventura - Gran Canaria (90km) - No recorded individual
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