ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - Croatia's long-distance swimmer Dina Levačić swam the North Channel on Sunday, becoming thus the first Croat to swim this 34-kilometre-wide strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland.
It took 10 hours, 26 minutes and 58 seconds for this 26-year-old girl from Split to conquer this channel, and she is the 104th person and 43rd woman to complete this adventure.
In June this year, she swam the Strait of Gibraltar.
So far, she has completed six of the Oceans Seven swims.
Oceans Seven
The Oceans Seven is a marathon swimming challenge consisting of seven open water channel swims. It was proposed in 2008 as the swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. It includes the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait, and the Strait of Gibraltar.
The one remaining challenge on Levačić's agenda is the 23-kilometre-long Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
Her first success was the 45.9-km Manhattan Island marathon on 25 June 2017.
That year she swam the Catalina Channel, 32.5 km between Catalina Island and the California mainland. In September 2017, she swam the English Channel.
In 2018 she also accomplished the Molokai Channel swim in a 41.8-kilometre-long waterway between the islands of O'ahu and Moloka'i in the State of Hawaii.
In August 2019, Levačić conquered 30-kilometre Tsugaru Strait between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
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