When Wayne Soutter successfully crossed from the Mull of Kintyre on extreme west coast of Scotland to the Antrim coast in northern Ireland, his success brought up an issue: where exactly is the official North Channel and where is the official course? Soutter’s swim from Mull of Kintyre to Ireland is a 11-mile crossing across the North Channel at the
Captain Webb crossed the English Channel in 1875. George Young crossed the Catalina Channel in 1927. Mercedes Gleitze was the first to cross the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928. Barry Devonport first crossed the Cook Strait in 1962. The world is a very large place. Mountains have been climbed and many run, bike and ski all over the Planet Earth. But there
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductees Kevin Murphy, Tim Johnson and Montserrat Tresserras Dou all contributed a variety of interesting information about pioneering marathon swimmer Mercedes Gleitze. Johnson recalled, "Mercedes' 1928 swim was terrific, pioneering a swim across the Strait of
