Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association (TCSA) 津軽海峡遠泳協会: What Does The Tsugaru Channel Look Like?

Friday, July 19, 2013

What Does The Tsugaru Channel Look Like?

Masayuki Moriya of Ocean-navi photographed and filmed Triple Crowner Brad McVetta's valient 17 hour 13 minute attempt of a Tsugaru Channel crossing from numerous angles above, below and at the water's surface.

The illustrative video created with a GoPro shown below gives a great idea of how the Tsugaru Channel looks on a calm day, but the story is always different under the surface of the clean, fast-moving, always temperature-variant water where the notorious Tsugaru Current and its resultant eddies can quickly and easily turn its back on channel swimmers.

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Steven Munatones, Founder

Successful Channel Swimmers

1. David Yudovin (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 13 hours 10 minutes (7 July 1990)
2. Steven Munatones (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 6 hours 11 minutes (July 1990)
3. Steven Munatones(USA) solo single crossing (Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 6 hours 39 minutes (July 1990)

Steven Munatones (USA) solo double crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 12 hours 50 minutes (1990)

4. Miyuki Fujita (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 36 minutes (2005)

Miyuki Fujita (Japan) solo triple crossing in 37 hours 24 minutes (2006)

7. Masayuki Moriya (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 55 minutes (2011) in wetsuit
8. Penny Palfrey (Australia) solo single crossing (Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 14 hours 30 minutes (2011)
9. Darren Miller (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 55 minutes (2012)
10. Stephen Redmond (Ireland) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 45 minutes (2012)
11. Michelle Macy (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 55 minutes (2012)
12. Forrest Nelson (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 26 minutes (2012)
13. Craig Lenning (USA) solo single crossing (Hokkaido-to-Honshu) in 10 hours 44 minutes (2012)
14. Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 19 hours 36 minutes (2012)
15. Anna-Carin Nordin (Sweden) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 19 hours 11 minutes (2012)
16. Kenichi Setsumasa (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 30 minutes (2012)
17. Adam Walker (Great Britain) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 31 minutes (2013)
18. Kimberley Chambers (New Zealand) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 38 minutes (2014)
19. Attila Mányoki (Hungary) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 29 minutes (2014)
20. Guy Moar (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 32 minutes (2015)
21. Daniel Curtis (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 13 hours 39 minutes (2015)
22. Antonio Argüelles (Mexico) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 38 minutes (2015)
23. Rohans More (India) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 37 minutes (2015)
24. Abhejali Bernardova (Czech Republic) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 7 minutes (2016)
25. Stephen Junk (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 2 minutes (2016)
26. Honoka Hasegawa (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 31 minutes (2016)
27. Toshio Tominaga (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 58 minutes (2016)
28. Elizabeth Fry (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 48 minutes (2016)
29. Ion Lazarenco Tiron (Moldova) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 20 minutes (2017)
30. Jorge Crivilles Villanueva (Spain) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 28 minutes (2017)
31. Adrian Sarchet (Guernsey) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 14 hours 2 minutes 9 seconds (2017)
32. Prabhat Raju Koli (India) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 52 minutes (2017)
33. Cameron Bellamy (South Africa) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 7 minutes 28 seconds (2018)
34. Ryan Utsumi (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 46 minutes (2018)
35. Nora Toledano Cadena (Mexico) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido in a tandem swim with Mariel Hawley Dávila) in 6 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds (2018)
36. Mariel Hawley Dávila (Mexico) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido in a tandem swim with Nora Toledano Cadena) in 6 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds (2018)
37. André Wiersig (Germany) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 55 minutes (2018)
38. Andrew Hunt (Australia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 52 minutes (2018)
39. Tomonari Ogino (Japan) solo wetsuit crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 5 minutes 50 seconds (2018)
40. Thomas Pembroke (Australia) solo solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 15 hours 1 minutes 30 seconds (2018)

41. Lynton Mortensen (Australia) solo solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 34 minutes 15 seconds (2018)

42. Masaki Sugita (Japan) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 13 hours 18 minutes 43 seconds (2018)

43. Simon Olliver (New Zealand) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 11 hours 58 minutes 0 seconds (2018)

44. Bogusław Ogrodnik (Poland) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 12 hours 30 minutes 43 seconds (2018)

45. Kieron Palframan (South Africa) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 41 minutes 5 seconds (2018)

46. Nathalie Pohl (Germany) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 9 minutes 40 seconds (2019)

47. Marcia Cleveland (USA) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds (2019)

48. Dina Levacic (Croatia) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 13 minutes 15 seconds (2019)

49. Matthias Kaßner (Germany) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 9 hours 45 minutes (2019)

50. Emre Erdogan (Turkey) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 7 hours 36 minutes (2019)

51. Luca Pozzi (Italy) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 8 hours 20 minutes 58 seconds (2019)

52. Herman van der Westhuizen (South Africa) solo single crossing (Honshu-to-Hokkaido) in 10 hours 22 minutes 37 seconds (2019)

Significant & Record Swims

First Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: David Yudovin (USA) on 7 July 1990 in 13 hours 10 minutes

First Hokkaido-Honshu Crossing: Steven Munatones (USA) on 30 July 1990 in 6 hours 39 minutes

First Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Miyuki Fujita (Japan) in 2005 in 11 hours 36 minutes

Fastest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Steven Munatones (USA) 29 July 1990 in 6 hours 11 minutes

Fastest Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Nora Toledano Cadena (Mexico) and Mariel Hawley Davila (Mexico) in 2018 in 6 hours 20 minutes 52 seconds (tandem swim)

Fastest Youth (under 21 years) Honshu-Hokkaido: Honoka Hasegawa (Japan) in 2016 in 8 hours 31 minutes

Fastest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Steven Munatones (USA) on 30 July 1990 in 6 hours 39 minutes

Youngest Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Honoka Hasegawa (Japan) in 2016 at 18 years old 4 months 20 days

Youngest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Prabhat Raju Koli (India) in 2017 at the age of 18 years 1 month 15 days

Youngest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Prabhat Raju Koli (India) in 2017 at the age of 18 years 1 month 15 days

Oldest Female Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) in 2012 at the age of 61 years old

Oldest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Crossing: Toshio Tominaga (Japan) in 2016 in 9 hours 58 minutes at the age of 73

Oldest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Toshio Tominaga (Japan) in 2016 in 9 hours 58 minutes at the age of 73

Longest Honshu-Hokkaido Single Crossing: Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) in 2012 in 19 hours 36 minutes

Longest Male Honshu-Hokkaido Single Crossing: Darren Miller (USA) in 2012 in 15 hours 55 minutes

Longest Overall Tsugaru Channel Crossing: Pat Gallant-Charette (USA) in 2012 in 19 hours 36 minutes

Fastest Double Crossing (Honshu-Hokkaido-Honshu): Steven Munatones (USA) in 1990 in 12 hours 50 minutes

First Triple Crossing (Honshu-Hokkaido-Honshu-Hokkaido): Miyuki Fujita (Japan) in 2006 in 37 hours 24 minutes