Chloe McCardel Completes Longest Marathon Swim
Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel successfully completed a 78-mile swim between two islands in the Bahamas last week. The epic swim took her 42.5 hours, which her support team says is the longest solo open-water continuous marathon swim in history for a man or woman.
According to the Associated Press, the 29-year-old McCardel set out on Monday from the southern tip of Eleuthera and made it to Nassau at 1 a.m. local time on Wednesday. For her attempt to qualify as a marathon swim under the Marathon Swimmer Federation (MSF) rules, she could not intentionally touch her support boat at any point during the trip.
“I know she will take some time to recover from this massive achievement, which she has spent her entire swimming career preparing for,” said her husband, Paul McQueeney, in a statement. “She is elated at successfully setting this record in this way, and a very, very proud Australian.”
McCardel attempted to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage in June 2013 but had to call it quits when she ran into a swarm of jellyfish, which stung her from head to toe. WomensMovement.com caught up with Chloe McCardel last year just after this historic attempt and featured the interview in a Ladies we Love article last year here.
“I had box jellyfish coming at me from all angles underneath in the water once the sun had set on the first night, only 11 hours in,” Chloe told us. “They aren’t design to attack humans or large animals and they were breaking apart upon contact, but the tentacles were still very effective at sticking to my skin and releasing toxins. After the first hit, there was an immense fireball of pain. Eventually, the pain was everywhere and it was so extreme I knew I needed to get out. I pulled a long tentacle out of my mouth while I was still in the water. I didn’t have the luxury of feeling disappointment, all I could think of was how much pain I was in and how much I wanted the pain to end.”
Chloe before her 6 hour English Channel qualifying swim in Jervis Bay, NSW
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