Irish Sea — United Kingdom · Ireland

Dublin - Holyhead

107.2 km
Distance
Dublin ↔ Holyhead
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Timeline

Computed from the recorded crossings: the first, the first by sex, the first from each country and every record broken.

  1. First womanAnna McCarthy38:52
  2. First from countryAnna McCarthy🇮🇪 Ireland38:52
  3. RecordAnna McCarthyWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay · 38:52

Crossings per decade

519902010

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.