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