A total of 9,147 individuals (unique viewers) watched some portion of the live streaming of Friday’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim world record attempt according to the certified statistics on UStream.

While Mark Warkentin and Petar Stoychev, two Olympic swimmers, failed to break the record held by Shelley Taylor-Smith, Mark explains how difficult the swim was below:

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