If anyone is interested, my wife's cousin is currently on the 3rd leg of the worlds longest swimming marathon. The event is called the 8 Bridges and covers the entire length of the Hudson River where they average about 18 miles a day. She is the youngest person to have ever made it passed stage 2 and will be 1 of 6 people in the world to have ever completed this. She swam the English Channel two years in around 12 hours. You can read more on the link below and follow along with the tracker on the page. Her name is Paige Christie from Andover Mass and is only 23.
https://m.facebook.com/8bridges/
Www.8bridges.org