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

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones. Source Farallon Islands Swimming Federation.

Annotations, which do not change the category: Pacer.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    Ted Erikson🇺🇸
    14:38 · Sep 17, 1967 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 1
    Ted Erikson🇺🇸
    14:38 · Sep 17, 1967 · 1 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Ted EriksonSep 17, 196714:38documented
1Ted EriksonSep 17, 196714:38documented
—Erikson1967—documentedPacer

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.