Hi Everyone! I'm organizing a crossing of the Strait of Messina in August 2004. The Strait of Messina is between Calabria and Sicily, Italy. The swim is approximately 3.3KM, but there are strong currents. We're organizing the swim with all the safety bells and whistles required by law, and by common sense. We've got a website up at: members.xoom.virgilio.it/.../, but we're still working on it. I'll be tranlating it in English soon too. The date is still unsure because given the strong tide currents, we want to calculate it according to the moon phases to have the smoothest ride.
So, if anyone's interested, send me an email, and I'll let you know more details as they come up. This should be fun!
Mary
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Has anyone else done this swim? I think that it still an event but I haven't seen any posts by Maryyyyy for some time.
I would like to try this swim next year-I think it is held in July-would appreciate any input.
Wow - it's been almost 8 years since I last posted here! How time flies.
After the first swim in 2004 I organized yearly non-competitive swims for 5 years taking about 150 swimmers across the Strait of Messina.
Since then my wonderful boat pilot, who is also the record-holder for the single crossing of the Strait of Messina, Giovanni Fiannacca, has been organizing swims. He is wonderful and anything organized by him will be a great experience.
Here's his website:
www.colapesceprimo.it/.../traversate.html
The other crossing mentioned by ViveBene is a 5km race which is held annually. That is also a fantastic event. However, there is such a request for it that it is "sold out" soon after the opening of the applications every year.
Good luck and have fun whatever you decide to do! The Strait of Messina is a magical place!!!
Mary
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Has anyone else done this swim? I think that it still an event but I haven't seen any posts by Maryyyyy for some time.
I would like to try this swim next year-I think it is held in July-would appreciate any input.
Wow - it's been almost 8 years since I last posted here! How time flies.
After the first swim in 2004 I organized yearly non-competitive swims for 5 years taking about 150 swimmers across the Strait of Messina.
Since then my wonderful boat pilot, who is also the record-holder for the single crossing of the Strait of Messina, Giovanni Fiannacca, has been organizing swims. He is wonderful and anything organized by him will be a great experience.
Here's his website:
www.colapesceprimo.it/.../traversate.html
The other crossing mentioned by ViveBene is a 5km race which is held annually. That is also a fantastic event. However, there is such a request for it that it is "sold out" soon after the opening of the applications every year.
Good luck and have fun whatever you decide to do! The Strait of Messina is a magical place!!!
Mary
