Red Sea — Egypt · Saudi Arabia

Sharm El-Sheikh - Tiran Island

25.1 km
Distance
Sharm El-Sheikh ↔ Tiran Island
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.

Annotations, which do not change the category: Swimsuit not stated.

Crossings swum in a wetsuit, a tech suit or a swimsuit covering more than Skin allows. Teams taking turns in the water, in a fixed order.

Podium · Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay · One-way

  1. 1
    4:55 · Oct 15, 2012 · 1 in Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay
  2. 1
    4:55 · Oct 15, 2012 · 1 in Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay
  3. 1
    4:55 · Oct 15, 2012 · 1 in Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Relay

3 of 4

Pos.↑TeamDateTime
1Jean Charl CravenOct 15, 20124:55Swimsuit not stated
1Michiel Le Roux, Robert Dunford, Jean Charl CravenOct 15, 20124:55Swimsuit not stated
1Michiel Le Roux, Robert Dunford, Jean Charl CravenOct 15, 20124:55Swimsuit not stated

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.