Oceans Seven Featured As #1 Extreme Adventure

Courtesy of The Weather Channel on the Oceans Seven.

Darren Miller, one of the seven aquatic adventurers, was featured on The Weather Channel’s Top Ten: Extreme Adventures that was broadcast on August 6th throughout America.

Miller was the first individual to go 7-for-7 on the Oceans Seven (i.e., 7 successful crossings in 7 attempts of the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, the English Channel between France and England, the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, the Cook Strait between the North and South Islans of New Zealand, the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in northern Japan, the Catalina Channel between Santa Catalina Island and Southern California, and the Molokai Channel between Oahu and Molokai Island).

The Weather Channel selected the Oceans Seven as the most extreme adventure in its Top 10 list that also included the Badwater Ultramarathon, running up Mount Everest, walking across Antarctica and Greenland, marine boot camp, cycling across America, and orienteering in Patagonia – all different journeys of the extreme through some of the worst weather conditions on Earth where adventurers willingly take on the unforgiving power of Mother Nature; trekking and treading through freezing temperatures in the mountains, in the oceans and in the Arctic Circle.

“It is great to see open water swimming, and the Oceans Seven in particular, receive the recognition of being an arduous, difficult, and challenging extreme sport, especially relative to distance running, cycling, mountaineering and all the other dryland sports that receive so much more attention,” says Steven Munatones. “But, however demanding open water swimming is, swimming is also forgiving on the body and can be done for decades at a high level and by people in their 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and older. This makes it unique among the most formidable extreme sports.“

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