Irish Sea — United Kingdom · Ireland

Dublin - Holyhead

107.2 km
Distance
Dublin ↔ Holyhead
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. Teams taking turns in the water, in a fixed order.

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—Shay Dillion, Les Nolan, Dave Kilmartin, Mike Kelly, Gerry Kelly, Feilim O'MaolainAug 16, 1993—

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.