Atlantic Ocean — Ireland

Mainland - Tory Island

13.8 km
Distance
Mainland ↔ Tory Island
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

These crossings are documented: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

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
    Dermot Duffy🇮🇪
    5:25 · 1996 · 1 in Skin · Solo

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Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Dermot Duffy19965:25
—Jack McClelland1968—
—Enry Phillip O’Donnell1995—
—Enry Phillip O’Donnell1997—

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.