Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Kimberly Rutherford, an American ice swimmer who successfully crossed Monterey Bay in Northern California on September 5th in 22 hours 6 minutes.

This was the third non-wetsuit crossing in history after Cindy Cleveland‘s pioneering swim in 1980 and Patti Bauernfeind‘s solo swim last week. Bruckner Chase completed a wetsuit-assisted swim in 2010.

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