Route — South Africa

Blouberg - Melkbosstrand

7.9 km
Distance
Big Bay, Bloubergstrand ↔ Melkbosstrand
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

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
    2:55 · Feb 10, 2011 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    Karon Marx🇿🇦
    3:15 · Feb 23, 2016 · 2 in Skin · Solo

2 of 2

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Martin VleggaarFeb 10, 20112:55
2Karon MarxFeb 23, 20163:15

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: Cape Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.