Manhattan Island Marathon Swim

I started this swim on the 12th of June 1999, it is a 46 kms swim around Manhattan Island in New York and today it is called the 20 Bridges swim as you swim under 20 Bridges. The swim started at Battery Park point and you then swim into the East River then into the Harlem River and then onto the Hudson River where you finish again at Battery Park point. There were 30 individual swimmers in the event and 2 relays of 6 people as well in the event. There were swimmers from many countries and you have about a 8 knot current behind you the whole day. I completed the swim in 7 hours and 53 minutes and also I had a documentary team that made a documentary about my swim and the lead up to the swim. The documentary is 28 minutes long and in Australia is called Freestyle man, but in USA it is called Swimming with Sky Scrapers. The conditions on the day were great and in the process of completing this swim I had swum the English Channel, Perth to Rottnest Island swim and Manhattan Island swims from July 1998 to June of 1999 and now I had also completed 2 legs of the Triple Crown of open water swimming.