Attempted 3 times before by a team of six in 1993, and finally completed on Monday 16th August 1993, in just under 30 hours, setting a now long-standing Guinness World Record. This is a highly challenging charity relay swim, raising vital funds for The Gavin Glynn Foundation.
The long distance swim of 100km+ consists of a relay team with 6 swimmers, all consecutively taking turns swimming to make it from Holyhead to Dublin, across the Irish sea.
This swim will be Independently Observed and a Detailed log under English Channel Rules for verification purposes
Guinness World Records, World open water swimming association, Irish long distance swimming association and the Public with be notified of our start time and live updates during swim and finish plus Live Tracking .
This Irish Sea relay swim is undertaken in accordance with North Channel Rules, observed and ratified by Irish Long Distance Swimming Association (ILDSA), Marathon Swimmers Federation (MSF) and World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA).
A team of 6 will swim in 1 hour rotations. Swimmers cannot touch the boat whilst swimming, or the team will be disqualified from their record attempt.
Swimmers must only wear one pair of togs, goggles and one swim cap. Wetsuits are not allowed. Each relay swimmer begins behind the previous one in the water as they make their way from Wales to Ireland.
Take a look below at our recent outing on Virgin TV –
At 10.30pm on Tuesday, 17th September 2019 – the swim will begin in Holyhead!
Pilot’s, Swimmers,Team will all be ready to take on the mighty and unpredictable cold Irish Sea.
You can follow their progress live on the swim tracker from the support boat – http://track.rs/infinityIrishSeaSwim
The main aim of the swim is to raise money for The Gavin Glynn Foundation. You can help by donating any amount you can spare. You can find the swim team’s fundraising page here – http://www.idonate.ie/Irishseaswim
3 teams of 6 in 1993 (under English channel rules)
1 Charity team of 11 in 2011 in aid of Cancer Research UK Led by Richard Branson / Ronan Keating
Successful Team in a Time of 29 Hrs 56 Min 56 Sec on 18th August at 4:00
Team manager
Mick Kennedy
Swimmers
Gerry Carrol, Shay Dillion, Mike Kelly, Dave Kilmartin, Feilim O’Maolain and Leslie Nolan.
The Team Mantra is “Giving Back” to our wonder sport of open water swimming and what better way by including Gavin Glynn Foundation for there incredible work in Helping Families with Children Fighting Cancer in Ireland , Traveling overseas for Treatment
We have chosen 6 Irish swimmers to follow in the foot steps of the 6 Irish swimmers who completed this massive swim in 1993.