Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Anthony McCarley and Donal Buckley took a nearly straight line from Spain to Morocco – and took only 4 hours 26 minutes cross the Strait of Gibraltar on a tandem swim.

“It was rough and tough,” reported McCarley as he added his third Oceans Seven crossing (after the English Channel and Catalina Channel.

The Marathon Swimmers Federation’s tracker shows their course between Spain (top) and Morocco (bottom).

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