OmniathlonOWS
Santa Barbara Channel — United States

Goleta - Santa Rosa Island

48.7 km
Distance
Goleta ↔ Santa Rosa Island
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. 2008
    First crossingMark Lewis15:46
  2. 2008
    First from countryMark Lewis🇺🇸 United States15:46
  3. 2008
    RecordMark LewisWetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · 15:46
  4. Oct 8, 2018
    First womanCaroline Block20:36:49

Crossings per decade

0.5120002010

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.