All For One And One For All Down The Coast
The Ventura Deep Six Relay is currently 18 miles off the coast of California and still have to swim back in to shore – and they are now also in the record books. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame website has logged their distance at a round number of 100 mile (162K) as the longest continuous open water swimming relay in history under traditional English Channel rules.The men and their three official observers, rotating in order to keep their focus, are such sticklers for English Channel rules that they did not want to push off anything – let alone a pier – while doing their turn. A video of their turn at the northernmost point of their swim is here.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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