Swimmers completing marathon swim day under our ‘Captain Webb Rules’

The following is an ever-growing list of those that during their successful UltraSwim 33.3 participations went a small step further, and completed the marathon swim day (always >10km) under what we now call ‘Captain Webb’ Rules* . These rules are based on the Marathon Swimmer Federation (MSF) rules - with the exception that we have for professional safety reasons required the use of tow floats (but without advantage gained from them). These swimmers have therefore had for example no neoprene, no electronic devices like smart watches, they have not touched any feedstation or support boat at any time, and they have not drafted behind another swimmer. Up until #10Montenegro, these swimmers have been accepted also on to the long-swims database of MSF under the event section. As one of two self-proclaimed authorities for marathon swimming (neither sit under World Aquatics, the official governing body for swimming), we respect their approach, but are unable to comply fully to their rules on safety grounds on a modern safe governance level of open water swimming (tow floats are a huge safety factor along with the fact they permit live GPS trackers to be placed inside them). That said, the ‘Captain Webb’ rules swim option on our marathon swim day (normally day 3 of our 4 day events), allow swimmers to test themselves under the same conditions that they might be required to if they want to swim a Channel crossing for example under these ‘traditional’ rules - and as such we like to reward their ‘extra’ effort made by listing them here. Every swimmer at UltraSwim 33.3 will usually, weather permitting, complete a marathon swim regardless of how they have done it (wetsuit or not for example), and regardless of any other ‘authorities’ view on what constitutes a marathon swim or not, they will have accomplished a marathon swim…