The Bermuda Four Corners Challenge is a series of 4-mile swims in Bermuda that are held without safety boats, buoys, or route markers in scenic, but less commonly swum, parts of Bermuda that was created by Mike Cash.

The four courses represent each of the four ‘corners’ of Bermuda around the northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest parts of the island, with two routes swum each year (one on Saturday and one on Sunday).

The swims start and finish at the waterline on local beaches and the only marker buoy is at the finish of each route.

Each Fair or Foul Four Miler represents an individual 4-mile course offering beautiful scenery, but with more risk compared to be a swim in an enclosed body of water. A swimmer who completes all four of the Fair or Foul Four Milers is deemed to have completed the Bermuda Four Corners Challenge.

For more information about the major sea swims in Bermuda, visit here for the Bermuda Round the Sound (0.8 km + 2 km + 4 km + 7.5 km + 10 km held in October), Squid Pro Quo (3 swims of 1 mile + 5 km + 1.5 km held in April), Devil’s Mile (1 mile in held June), Open Water Bermuda National Championships (5 km + 1.5 km + 400 meters held in September), and Four Corners (4 four-mile swims currently on hiatus).

The Four Corners event offered a unique award that takes its place among the other unusually creative awards in the open water swimming world:

• Belt buckles at the SCAR Swim Challenge in Arizona, USA
• Forner Corners hydration in Bermuda
• Conch tropies at the Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim in Turks & Caicos
• Walking sticks and woodals at the Kingdom Swim in Vermonte
• Paper crown for Ice Kilometers swimmers at the International Ice Swimmiing Association Ireland National Championships
• For Triple Crowners (English Channel + Catalina Channel + Around Manhattan Island)
• MSF Spork + MSF Navigator Award from the Marathon Swimmers Federation
• Cherrywood plaque for South End Rowing Club members for their North Channel crossing
• For H20PLAY Swim Series winners
• For 2-way North Channel relay from Northern Ireland to Scotland and back to Northern Ireland
• For Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim finishers on Oahu
• For finishers of the Nevis to St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim
• English Channel award for Shubham Vanmali
• Unique fish awards at the Los Cabos Open Water Challenge
• Rhinoceros trophy for the 8 Mile Charity Club at the Midmar Mile
• North Channel crossing by the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association
• Gaston Memorial Swim awards
• Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli finisher timepieces
• Toyota Argo at the aQuellé Midmar Mile

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