1. Home
  2. Sports
  3. Swimming
photo of Mat Luebbers
Mat's Swimming Blog

By Mat Luebbers, About.com Guide to Swimming since 1999

Longest Ocean Swim

Thursday October 14, 2004
Australian Susie Maroney swam a record 197 km (122 miles) from Mexico to Cuba, covering the longest distance ever swum without flippers in open sea. She completed the marathon swim in 38 hours and 33 minutes, arriving in Cuba on June 1, 1998. (Guiness World Records)
Comments
July 25, 2007 at 3:31 am
(1) Giusseppe Sebastien Lacuna says:

wow congratualition to you ahmm u the best man in the world wich swim for one day a a half hour the world classified pupoluse things ive heard so shock!!!

February 4, 2009 at 9:49 pm
(2) christopher Richards says:

i want to be the first to swim from one continent to another

July 4, 2009 at 10:50 am
(3) matt geiger says:

i just swam from hawaii to Anchorage, Alaska. i just dudn’t tells no one. cotton pickin.

Leave a Comment

Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

Discuss
Community Forum
Explore Swimming
About.com Special Features

Strike out the competition with these step-by-step pictorials. More >

Learning Pilates fundamentals can help you get the most out of your exercise regime. More >

  1. Home
  2. Sports
  3. Swimming

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.