Route — South Africa

Robben Island - Dassen Island

49.9 km
Distance
Robben Island ↔ Dassen Island
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. Teams taking turns in the water, in a fixed order.

Podium · Skin · Relay · One-way

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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.