SWIM OF 53 MILES
FRENCHMAN'S RECORD
OVER 45 HOURS IN WATER
(Reed. July 27, 9 a.m.)
VENICE, California, July 20.
Paul Chotteau, the French swimmer, was taken from the water 11 miles from his goal, after his failure to swim 58 miles from Santa Barbara Island to the mainland.
Chotteau, however, established a new long distance record in open water of approximately 53 miles in one day 21 hours 4 minutes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19693, 27 July 1938, Page 5
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