Anshuman Jhingran of Navi Mumbai, India already captured one Guinness World Record when he became the youngest person at 18 years and 125 days to cross the 35 km North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland in 11 hours 28 minutes in 2023 (subsequently broken by 16-year-old Brian Foster last month). 

He finished the 32.3 km Catalina Channel in California (in a fast 8 hour 38 minute crossing) and the Cook Strait in New Zealand in 6 hours 58 minutes, and just completed a solid 45 km crossing of the Molokai Channel in Hawaii this morning in 14 hours 21 minutes under the escort of Michael Twigg-Smith. Anshuman is one of the few teenagers in history to complete the Molokai Channel.

Twigg-Smith explained his course [see below], “We had to change course about 9 km off Alan Davis Beach at around 2 am as it became apparent we were going to finish before dawn [in the dark]. So we adjusted course to finish at Sandy Beach, which added about 1.5 km to the distance because we cannot finish at Alan Davis in the dark.” 

The 19-year-old is on track to set another Guinness World Record at this pace. His fellow countryman Prabhat Raju Koli currently holds the record for the youngest male Oceans Seven swimmer at the age of 23.

More details to follow, but his Track.rs shows a rather remarkable line in the fortuitous conditions. He started on Pāpōhaku Beach on Molokai at 3:15 pm yesterday and rarely deviated from a straight line course to his destination on Oahu.

Pāpōhaku Beach Park has one of the coolest beach showers in the Hawaiian islands:

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