Tandem swim
noun - Tandem swim (or tandem crossing is when two or more open water swimmers cross a channel, do a marathon swim or otherwise swim together in open bodies of water at the same pace.
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Tandem Relay Swim
A tandem relay swim is when two or more relays cross a channel, do a marathon swim or otherwise swim together in open bodies of water at the same pace.
Usage
Walter Bean Scott and Michael Hird completed their tandem swim across the Anacapa Channel without problems.
Synonyms
tandem relay swim, tandem crossing, group crossing, group swim, group tandem swim, marathon tandem swim, tandem marathon swim, big group swim, tandem group swim, pod swimming, group swimming
Tandem Swim Between Diomede Islands
Tandem Swim in the Dead Sea
Participating open water swimmers in the 16 km group tandem swim called the Dead Sea Swim between Jordan and Israel across the Dead Sea on 15 November 2016 that took 7 hours 9 minutes included Udi Erell, Adina Faur, Kimberley Chambers, Abigail Thomson, Avishag Turek, Ori Sela, Oded Rahav, Juandre Human, Jean Craven, Evan Feldman, Ben Enosh, Doron Amosi, Munqeth Mehyar, Brooke Penney, Dov Litvinoff, Nick Papageorge, Samuel Moran, Luc Chetboun, Karon Marx, Neil Macaskill, Herman van der Westhuizen, Hylton Lokitch, Gita Osrin, Ram Barkai, Erez Amir, Yussuf Muhammad Ahmad Matari, Olfat Haider, Rachel Sharon Lane, Qusai Abdullah khalaf Al-louzi, Ahmed khalil ahmad murad, and Jackie Cobell. Members were from South Africa's Madswimmer group and the Cyprus Israel Relay Team.
Lake Malawi Madswimmer Crossing
29 Madswimmers 25 km crossing of Lake Malawi in October 2016 in a big group swim.
Into the Maelstrom Videos
By Beth Harrison and Jack Hudson
Great Shark Swim
The Great Shark Swim, a 100 km tandem swim of 20 swimmers, in the Agulhas Current off South Africa
External links
- Notables Across The Strait of Gibraltar During The 2025 Season
- Now It is His Turn: Dr. Tapan Kumar Panigrahi Swimming 81 km
- Milton Brest Completes His Intercontinental Swim Series
- Maria Cleveland Adds Another Achievement To Her Prolific Career
- Yasemin Altintas and Murat Öz Abort Tandem Molokai Channel Crossing after Bite from a Cookiecutter Shark
- Quartet Rounds Rarotonga in the Cook Islands
- Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen, Andy Donaldson, Fatema Al Mahmeed, and Abdulla Attiya Start 170 km Swim Around Bahrain
- Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen and Andy Donaldson Complete World Island Swim
- Giving Back In The Open Water – Mother’s Love Leaves a Legacy
- Two Sisters. Two Way. Tandem Tough. Too Cool
- Avishag Turek Setting Standards Across The Sea of Galilee
- Swimming Into Sandy Beach On Oahu
- Tina Deeken Continues To Move Forward, Take Action, and Inspire
- How Do You Define A Crossing In The Open Water?
- Minaglia, Marek Lehocky Complete 206 km Circumnavigation Swim Around Oahu
- Minaglia, Marek Lehocky Near Culmination of An Unprecedented Adventure Around Oahu
- 50 Marathon Swims in 25 Days across America - Joe and John Zemaitis Complete the Unbelievable
- Henrique Forte, Gabriel Antunes Complete Travessia do Leme ao Pontal
- 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Nominees
- 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Nominees
- WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
- Deaxo Croes Talks About Crossing For Hope On WOWSA Live
- Deaxo Croes, Davy Bisslik, Romar Arendsz, Wendy Kock-Croes, Stephan Thijsen Swim From Venezuela To Aruba
- Crossing For Hope
- Unprecedented Perimeter Swim Around The Sea of Galilee
- Joe Zemaitis Talks Swimming Around The World On WOWSA Live - Part 1
- Steve Minaglia Does His 19th Channel Crossing With Friends
- Michelle Macy Talks About Her Open Water Journey On WOWSA Live
- Michelle Macy Talks About Her Open Water Journey On WOWSA Live
- Cameron Bellamy Talks About His Extreme Adventures On WOWSA Live
- Facing Reverse Osmosis Across The Dead Sea
- Tandem Swim Completes Triple Crown For Veterans
- Theodore Yach And Avishug Turek Cross The Sea Of Galilee
- Strait of Messina Records
- Striving In The Strait Of Messina
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Catalina Channel Swimming Federation
- Tandem Times Two Triumphant
- Swimming From Little Diomede To Ratmanova Island
- Alexandr Brylin, Grigorii Prokopchuk Cross To Ratmamova
- What Do Two Fingers Mean Out In The Open Water?
- Tandem Swims, Breathe Left, Right Or Together?
- Alexandr Brylin, Grigori Prokopchuk's Diomedes Swim Is 2014 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
- Liz Fry, Marcy MacDonald Double Down Across Molokai
- Marathon Swimming
- Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- I Got Stung
- World Marathon Swimming Association
- Wild Swimming Brothers Take Risks To Live Up To Name
- Sir Richard Branson Plans To Strive On
- Nora And Liz Double Up For The Triple
- Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
- Nino Fazio Organizing Swims In The Strait of Messina
- Sir Richard Branson Strives To Swim On
- Sir Branson, Adrian Grenier Cross Strait Of Messina
- Four Is Not A Crowd With Dolphins
- Lowest Swim In History Completed Across The Dead Sea
- Looking At And Swimming Into The Maelstrom
- Trio Tandem Completes Anacapa Circumnavigation
- Dynamic Duo Swim To Africa
- Swimming Together In Pan-American Colibrí Swim
- Avishag Turek, Guy Cohen Cross The Sea of Galilee
- Albert Coward Honored By The Hall Of Fame
- The Great Shark Swim Reaches Its Limit
- Swimming With Sharks
- Avishag Turek Is Getting Warmed Up
- Francisco Aguirre Completes A Straits Of Magellan Crossing
- Stephen Junk Completes A Straits Of Magellan Crossing
- Two Triumphant Tandem For Triple
- Go For Relays And Tandem Swims
- Taking A Paige From Vito's Book
- Nora Toledano Cadena Achieves The Oceans Seven
- Mariel Hawley Dávila Achieves The Oceans Seven
- Mariel Hawley Dávila Reflects Upon The Oceans Seven
- Nora Toledano & Mariel Hawley: Las Reinas De Los 7 Mares
- Zach Margolis: Past, Present And Future In The Open Water
- When Mariel Hawley Dávila Achieved The Oceans Seven
- When Nora Toledano Cadena Achieved The Oceans Seven