In His Prime – Beyond The Shoreline With Steven Leitch

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Steve Leitch (51, USA, MSF bio here, @stevemobyleitch) is among the 109 people who have crossed the Moloka’i Channel – and among the fastest with his 12 hours 54 minute crossing in April 2023.

After a 9-month run on Amazon in both the UK and Ireland Amazon for 9 months, Leitch and director, writer, producer Herschel Zahnd (@herschelzahndphotovideo)is bringing their movie Beyond the Shoreline: The Channel of Bone to Amazon Prime Video in his native United States. Prime describes Beyond the Shoreline as a riveting 1 hour 28 minute film where “Steve Moby Leitch embarks on a journey to one of the most beautiful and dangerous locations in the world to swim the Molokai Channel. This ordinary man overcomes addiction, loss and crisis of faith to use his gifts to serve others.”

There have been only 12 people since the first crossing in 1961 who have swum faster than 13 hours across the wild 45 km stretch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between the islands of Moloka’i and O’ahu.

Andreas Waschburger in 9 hours 55 minutes in 2024
Haley Chasin 11 hours 59 minutes in 2025
Attila Mányoki in 12 hours 2 minutes in 2015
Penny Palfrey in 12 hours 7 minutes in 2011
Bengisu Avci in 12 hours 10 minutes in 2024
Patrick Autissier in 12 hours 18 minutes in 2024
Darren Miller in 12 hours 12 minutes in 2011
Jorge Ivan Agudelo Vargas in 12 hours 12 minutes in 2023
Robert Woodhouse in 12 hours 15 minutes in 2023
Sarah Thomas in 12 hours 39 minutes in 2021
Chris Palfrey in 12 hours 53 minutes in 2010
Steve Leitch in 12 hours 54 minutes in 2023

But in additional to training and swimming across the channel, Leitch also bore the heavy responsibility and pressure of producing Beyond The Shoreline: The Channel of Bones, along with his wife Kelly Leitch.

For more information on Amazon, visit here. For more information on the film, visit beyondtheshoreline.org.