Santa Barbara Channel — United States

Mainland - Santa Cruz Island

38.8 km
Distance
Diablo Anchorage, Santa Cruz Island ↔ Leadbetter Beach, Santa Barbara
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
    15:15 · 1983 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 2
    Ashby Harper🇺🇸
    16:24 · Aug 18, 1984 · 2 in Skin · Solo

2 of 18

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1David Yudovin198315:15documented
2Ashby HarperAug 18, 198416:24documented

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.