King of the Prison Island Swims

Libre comme l'eau by Jacques Tuset, an Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and King of the Prison Island Swims

Le Château d’If of the island of If, start of the Défi de Monte Cristo open water swim and one of the Prison Island Swims in Marseille, France

Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, Australia, site of the Dawny To Cockatoo Swim, a prison island swim

Jacques Tuset of France is the King of Prison Island Swims

noun - King of Prison Island Swims is the individual who has completed the most number of prison island swims or open water swims between famed prison islands and the shorelines or mainlands nearby.

Triple Break Sites or Prison Island Swim (listed by region and country)

Africa

• Mogador Island (Morocco): 2.2 km to mainland, was used as a prison in the late 1800s
  
• Île de Gorée (Senegal) 5.2 km to mainland, was known as the location of the House of Slaves
  
• Robben Island (South Africa): 7.4 km to mainland, was the former isolated prison home of Nelson Mandela and other South Africans
  
• Changuu (Tanzania): 34 km to mainland and 4.5 km to Zanzibar, was used in the 1860s as a prison for rebellious slaves
  
• Saint Helena (UK Colony in South Atlantic Ocean): 1,800 km to mainland was used as a prison for Napoleon
  

Asia/Australia

• Rottnest Island (Australia): 19.7 km to mainland, was used as an Aboriginal prison between 1838 and 1931 for men and boys
  
• Fort Denison (Australia): 1 km to mainland, was used as a prison and for hanging in the 1800s
  
• Cockatoo Island (Australia): 0.5 km to mainland, was used as a prison from 1839 to 1869
  
• Tasmania Island (Australia): 198 km to mainland, 70,000 were transported there from the early 1800s
  
• Hao Island (French Polynesia): 920 km to Tahaiti, in the late 1980s, two French intelligence (DGSE) operatives were briefly confined to the military base on the island after France obtained their release from a New Zealand prison for sinking the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior
  
• Gunkanjima Island (Japan): 15 km to Nagasaki, was used as a prison from 1930s to 1946 during World War II
  
• Sado Island (Japan): 40 km to Japanese mainland, was used as a prison from 722 to 1271
  
• Kwajalein Island (Marshall Islands): 2,865 km to Papua New Guinea, as reported in "Unbroken - Louis Zamperini Story" - Execution Island from WWII
  
• Isle of Pines (New Caledonia): 49 km to mainland, 3,000 deported from the Paris Commune in 1872
  
• Côn Sơn Island (Vietnam): 85 km to mainland, was used as a prison from the 1960s to the 1980s
  
• St. Helena (Australia): 4 km to mainland, was used as a prison between 1826 and 1932
  

Central America

• Isla San Lucas (Costa Rica): 4 km to mainland, was used as a prison 1873 to 1991
  
• Guantanamo Bay (Cuba): 90 km to Haiti, used as a prison in recent times
  
• Coiba (Panama): 20 km to mainland, was used as a prison from 1919 to 2004
  

Europe

• Alderney Island (Alderney, Channel Islands): 15 km to mainland, was a camp for Russian slave workers for the German occupational forces during World War II
  
• Goli otok (Croatia): 3 km to mainland, a political prison from 1949 to 1989
  
• Drakes Island (England): 0.75 km to mainland, Two famous Roundheads were imprisoned from 1662 to 1683 - both died on the island
  
• Spitbank Fort (England): 1.3 km to mainland, built in 1878 and served later as a prison
  
• Île du Levant (France): 12 km to mainland, was used as a children's prison
  
• Fort Royal de Sainte-Marguerite (France): 1 km to mainland, was used as a military prison and where the famous Man in the iron mask was held captive
  
• Le Château d’If (France): 5 km to mainland, was a fortress and prison for 400 best know through the novel The Count of Monte Cristo
  
• Fort Boyard (France): 18 km to mainland, is an oval-shaped fort and military prison
  
• Île de Brescou (Brescou Fort) (France): 1.5 km to mainland, was used from late 1600s for 200 year as a state prison for crimes such as treason
  
• Oleron Island (Île d'Oléron) (France): 3 km “organised race” to mainland, was used as a state prison between 1789-1870
  
• Château du Taureau (France): 0.7 km to mainland, was used in the 1720 as a small prison (10 prisoners maximum)
  
• Belle-Île (France): 15 km to mainland, was used from 1902 to 1977 for children
  
• Ile d’ Yeu (France): 20 km to mainland, was used until 1950s from the 1860s as a state prison – famous for Marshal Petain
  
• Saint-Martin-de-Ré (France): 16 km to mainland, was used as a transfer prison for convict destines for Devil's Island
  
• Makronisos (Greece): 5 km to mainland, was used in the 1946-1949 as a prison political prisoners
  
• Fortress of Bourtzi (Greece): 0.5 km to mainland, was used from the 1865s as a prison
  
• Spike Island (Ireland): 2 km off the larger Island of Cobh, was the former isolated prison home of infamous Irish inmates
  
• Isola delle Femmine (Italy): 0.5 km to mainland, was used as a female only penal colony in the 1600s
  
• Isola di Capraia (Italy): 62 km to mainland, northwesternmost of the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, 30 km to Corsica, 32 km to Elba, penal colony from 1873 to 1986
  
• Pianosa (Italy): 18 km to mainland, was used from Roman times and later for Mafia members as a prison, part of the Tuscan Archipelago
  
• Elba (Italy): 22 km to mainland, was used as Napoleon’s prison, part of the Tuscan Archipelago
  
• Isola di Capraia (Italy): northwesternmost of the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, 30 km to Corsica, 32 km to Elba, penal colony from 1873 to 1986
  
• Grmožur (Montenegro): 1.5 km to mainland, The “Alcatraz” of Montenego from 1843
  
• Mamula Fortress (Montenegro): 1.2 km to mainland, was used as a prison in the 1800s
  
• Bastøy (Norway): 2 km to mainland, was used in the 1898 as a children's prison and now is trying to become "the first ecological prison in the world"
  
• Cabrera (Spain): 25 km to mainland, was used in the early 1860s as a prison during the Napoleonic Wars – once housing 25,000 prisoners
  
• Tabarca (Spain): 21 km to mainland, was used in the 1700s as a prison
  
• Isla de San Simón (Spain): 0.4 m to mainland, was used from 838 to 1927 as a prison and leper colony
  
• Långholmen (Sweden): 0.3 km to the center of Stockholm, was used as a prison for 250 years – closed in 1975
  

North America

• Alcatraz Island (U.S.A. - San Francisco, California): 2.3 km to mainland, was the former isolated prison home of Al Capone and other celebrated American criminals
  
• Santa Cruz (U.S.A. - Santa Barbara, California): 33 km to mainland, was use to house prisoner after Mexico's independence from France
  
• Fort Warren (U.S.A. - Boston, Massachusetts): On Georges Island, 11 km to mainland, was used as a prison in the American Civil War until 1862
  
• Long Island (U.S.A. - Boston, Massachusetts): , 1 km to mainland, During the Winter of 1676/7 all the local American Indians were collected and abandoned on the Island
  
• Fort Jefferson (U.S.A. - Key West, Florida): 110 km to Key West Florida, was used as a prison for USA Civil War deserters and plotters to kill Abraham Lincoln
  
• McNeil Island (U.S.A. - Steilacoom, Washington): 4.5 km to mainland, was used as a prison in the 1880s up to 1,200 inmates
  
• Johnson Island (U.S.A. - Alderson, West Virginia): 5 km to mainland, was used as a prison from 1861 with up 2,500 Conference prisoners
  
• Peddocks Island (U.S.A. - Boston, Massachusetts): 0.4 km to mainland, was used as a prison during World War II for Italian prisoners
  
• Deer Island (U.S.A. - Boston, Massachusetts): Does not qualify - it is no longer separated from the mainland, was used as a prison from 1880 to 1981
  
• Rikers Island (U.S.A. - New York City, New York): 0.1 km to mainland, active prison - and probably wouldn't encourage a swim!
  
• Sunflower Island (U.S.A. - Missouri): no longer an island, Prison during the Civil War for those with smallpox - and prior to that the location of a duel challenge with future President Abraham Lincoln!
  

South America

• Île Saint-Joseph (French Guiana): 13.3 km to mainland was a well-known location of the French penal system
  
• Devil's Island (French Guiana): 14 km to mainland, was a well-known location of the French penal system and a leper colony
  
• Ilha Anchieta (Brazil): 0.4 km to mainland, was used as a penal colony between 1902 and 1952 at which point a prison riot led to its closure
  
• Ilha Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): 350 km to mainland, was used as a penal colony between 1900 and 1990
  
• Ilha Grande (Brazil): 2 km to mainland, was used as a penal colony between 1900 and 1990
  
• Robinson Crusoe Island (Chile): 597 km to mainland, 1704, British privateer Alexander Selkirk was marooned from 1704 to 1709
  
• Gorgona Island (Columbia): 35 km to mainland, was used as a penal colony between 1946 and 1959
  
• Isabela Island (Ecuador - Galápagos): 1,100 km to mainland, was used as a penal colony between 1959 and 1984
  
• Islet Mother (French Guiana) 11 km to mainland, started as a leper colony in the 18th Century and then became a prison for 600 convicts and political prisoners
  
• Salvation Islands: Devil's, St Joseph's and Royale (French Guiana) 12.7-14 km to mainland, was a well-known location of the French penal system and a leper colony
  
• El Frontón (Peru): 5 km to mainland, was used as a prison until the 20th century
  

List of Famed Triple Break Swimmers

Jacques Tuset is the present King of Prison Island Swims including Oleron Island - La Tremblade + Alcatraz + Le Château d’If + Fort Boyard + Robben + Cabrera Island - Majorque + Langholmen + Spike + Île du Levant + Sainte-Marguerite + Rottnest + Tabarca + Île de Brescou + Château du Taureau + Goree + Salvation Islands: Devil's, St Joseph's and Royale + Isla de San Simón + Isola delle Femmine + Drakes Island + Spitbank Fort + Mogodar + Devil's Island for 22 escapes.

External links

• Libre comme l’eau By Jacques Tuset
• Triple Crown of Prison Escapes
• Shhhhh...Don't Tell Anyone About The Prison Break
• Strange But True 7-Hour Open Water Swim
• The Octad Of Open Water - Prison Island Swims
• Quite The Quatro, Swimming For Seven
• Nick Glendinning Breaks Out, Completes The Triple Break
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Jacques Tuset Makes Another Escape From Prison
• Jacques Tuset Breaks Out Of Prison...Again And Again
• Jacques Tuset Makes Another Escape To Shore
• Jacques Tuset, The Houdini Of The Open Water
• 2014 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nominees
• 2014 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year Nominees
• 2014 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
• 2014 WOWSA Awards Nominees
• 2014 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nominees
• What A Performance In The Open Water
• Alexandr Brylin, Grigori Prokopchuk's Diomedes Swim Is 2014 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
• Open Water Swimming Around Bastøy Prison Island
• 3 Channels For Kizuna Enei Oudan Project
• Jacques Tuset Knocks Off 8 Ball
• Tanzania's Changuu Added To The Prison Island Swims
• Isola di Capraia In The Tuscan Archipelago
• Isola di Pianosa, Protected Marine Beauty
• Where Fred And Mary Swam, Others Follow
• Jacques Tuset, Nageur De L'extrême
• An Open Water Adventure From Île Saint-Joseph
• Jacques Tuset, Ned Denison, Jills Vanegas Escape Île St-Joseph
• 2016 WOWSA Awards Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nominees