OmniathlonOWS
Pacific Ocean — United States

Farallon Islands - Golden Gate Bridge

49.8 km
Distance
Northeast buoy, Farallon Islands ↔ Golden Gate Bridge
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Northeast buoy, Farallon Islands ↔ Golden Gate Bridge: 49.8 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 22 crossings by swimmers from 3 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: Farallon Islands Swimming Federation. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.