OmniathlonOWS
Pacific Ocean — United States

Anacapa Island - Santa Cruz Island

7.8 km
Distance
West Point, Anacapa Island ↔ San Pedro Point, Santa Cruz Island
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

West Point, Anacapa Island ↔ San Pedro Point, Santa Cruz Island: 7.8 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 13 crossings by swimmers from 2 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.