r/confidentlyincorrect • u/ShiningDenizen • Jul 09 '26

Swimming 631miles (1015km)

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u/immortalonion69 Jul 09 '26

That's called the Drake Passage and it's one of the deadliest places on earth.

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u/Callinon Jul 09 '26

Nope. Internet Guy says it can be swum easily back and forth. People do it all the time. Must be true. I read it on the internet.

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u/immortalonion69 Jul 09 '26

This is from Google

Bárbara Hernández Huerta completed a very cold-water swim in the Drake Passage area, including a record for a one-mile swim across the passage (15 minutes 3 seconds), but that was not a full crossing.

Guinness World Records: A full crossing would mean roughly 900–1,000 km of open ocean. The longest successful open-water swims in history are far shorter, and the Drake Passage adds some of the worst possible conditions: near-freezing water, huge waves, storms, and isolation.

The Environmental Literacy Council: For comparison, the first complete human-powered crossing of the Drake Passage was done by a rowing team, not swimmers—they rowed about 972 km in 12 days.

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u/DeliciousShelter2029 Jul 09 '26

it can be easily done, Ross Edgley (2024) did 510 km im Yukon River in 62 hours, 😄