Did You Know?

• The youngest person and oldest. to successfully complete swims in the Channel Islands
  were Kaustubh Vermuri (10 years of age) and Emilio Casanueva (68 years of age). They swam from Anacapa Island in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
• Cindy Cleveland was the first person to complete a swim from a Channel Island other than Catalina. Cindy did a round trip swim to Anacapa in 1978.
• Dave Yudovin was the first male to complete a non-Catalina channel swim in 1982.
• SBCSA President Scott Zornig was involved in the shortest and longest swims in Channel Island history. He was part of a relay which swam from San Clemente Island in 33:08. He also did a solo from Anacapa Island to Santa Cruz Island in 2:18. Scott's 2001 swim from Anacapa Island to Silver Strand Beach was featured on  Fred Roggin’s NBC sports show. The producer of the piece won an Emmy award. 
• Sports Illustrated ran an article on Ashby Harper who was thought to be the first person to complete a swim from Santa Cruz Island in 1984. After learning that Dave Yudovin completed a swim 12 months earlier off the same island, Sports Illustrated did a retraction. Ashby was then credited as the first person to do the longer course from Santa Cruz while Dave Yudovin will always hold the honor of being the first successful swimmer off of Santa Cruz Island.
• Penny Palfrey and Dave Yudovin are the only people to have had successful solo swims off of 3 different Channel Islands. Penny also has an inter-island solo swim on her resume while Dave Yudovin was a member of a relay swim from a 4th channel island.
• The longest non-double, solo swim from a Channel Island was Penny Palfrey's 37.5 statute mile swim from Santa Barbara Island.
• Three of the greatest marathon swims in swimming history were done from the California
  Channel Islands. Marc Lewis’ 27.4 mile swim from Santa Rosa Island in 2008, Penny Palfrey's 25.3 mile swim from San Miguel in 2008 and Penny Palfrey’s 37.5 mile swim from Santa Barbara Island in 2009 rank amongst the all-time amazing performances.
• No one has ever completed a solo or relay swim off of San Nicolas Island which is 60 miles off the Southern California coastline. In 2007, a relay of 6 men motored all the way to San Nicolas with the goal of swimming all the way back to the mainland. After arriving, they decided it was un-swimmable and elected to swim around Catalina Island instead.