The Oceans Seven is a marathon swimming challenge consisting of seven open water channel swims. It was devised in 2008 as the swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. It includes the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokaʻi Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar.
List of Oceans Seven swims
- The North Channel: between Ireland and Scotland, 34.5 kilometres (18.6 nmi)
- The Cook Strait: between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, 22.5 kilometres (12.1 nmi)
- The Molokaʻi Channel (also known as the Kaiwi Channel): between Moloka’i and O’ahu, 42 kilometres (23 nmi)
- The English Channel: between England and France, 33 kilometres (18 nmi)
- The Catalina Channel: between Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles, 32.3 kilometres (17.4 nmi)
- The Tsugaru Strait: between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, 19.5 kilometres (10.5 nmi)
- The Strait of Gibraltar: between Spain and Morocco, 14.4 kilometres (7.8 nmi)
List of successful completions
The LongSwims Database maintains a list of swimmers who have completed the challenge:
Name | Date completed | Nation | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Stephen Redmond | 14 July 2012 | Ireland | First ever to complete all seven swims |
2 | Anna-Carin Nordin | 8 July 2013 | Sweden | First woman to complete all seven swims |
3 | Michelle Macy | 15 July 2013 | United States | |
4 | Darren Miller | 29 August 2013 | United States | |
5 | Adam Walker | 6 August 2014 | United Kingdom | |
6 | Kimberley Chambers | 2 September 2014 | New Zealand | |
7 | Antonio Argüelles | 3 August 2017 | Mexico | |
8 | Ion Lazarenco-Tiron | 27 January 2018 | Republic of Moldova | First from a landlocked country |
9 | Rohan Dattatrey More | 9 February 2018 | India | First Asian |
10 | Abhejali Bernardová | 24 February 2018 | Czech Republic | |
11 | Cameron Bellamy | 21 June 2018 | South Africa | First South African |
12 | Lynton Mortensen | 14 November 2018 | Australia | First Australian |
13 | Thomas “Fleppy” Pembroke | 14 December 2018 | Australia | |
14 | Nora Toledano Cadena | 30 March 2019 | Mexico | |
15 | Mariel Hawley Dávila | 30 March 2019 | Mexico | |
16 | André Wiersig | 9 June 2019 | Germany | |
17 | Elizabeth Fry | 25 August 2019 | United States | |
18 | Attila Mányoki | 26 August 2019 | Hungary | |
19 | Jonathan Ratcliffe | 10 December 2019 | United Kingdom | |
20 | Jorge Crivillés | 1 January 2020 | Spain | First Spaniard |
21 | Adrian Sarchet | 29 February 2020 | Guernsey | |
22 | Prabhat Koli | 1 March 2023 | India | |
23 | Dina Levačić | 14 March 2023 | Croatia | First Croat, youngest (27 years) |
24 | Herman van der Westhuizen | 16 July 2023 | South Africa | |
25 | Andrew Donaldson | 27 July 2023 | United Kingdom | Fastest total time (calendar and cumulative) |
26 | Stephen Junk | 10 September 2023 | Australia | |
27 | Kieron Palframan | 6 October 2023 | South Africa |
See also
References
- Sataline, Suzanne (2010); "Extreme Swimmers Accept the Challenge of 'Oceans Seven'"; Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 16, 2010.