Pacific Ocean — United States

Anacapa Island - Mainland

20.1 km
Distance
East Anacapa Island (near Arch Rock) ↔ Silver Strand Beach, Oxnard
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.

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
    8:01 · Aug 14, 1990 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 1
    8:01 · Aug 14, 1990 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    8:27:14 · Aug 12, 1982 · 3 in Skin · Solo
  4. 3
    8:27:14 · Aug 12, 1982 · 3 in Skin · Solo

6 of 400

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Suzanne RiedingerAug 14, 19908:01documented
1Suzanne RiedingerAug 14, 19908:01documented
3Dave YudovinAug 12, 19828:27:14documented
3Dave YudovinAug 12, 19828:27:14documented
5Cindy ClevelandSep 9, 197812:48documented
—Cindy Cleveland1978—documented

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.