Later in 1978, she swam it again, this time in the opposite direction. She followed up with a string of endurance achievements, including the English Channel, a double Bristol Channel crossing and Foveaux Strait. She “retired” to have two children but returned after five years for the first double Cook Strait crossing by a woman, a circumnavigation of Rarotonga (another first) and then a cross of one of the five great lakes, Erie in Canada. Over about a decade, she became one of the most remarkable figures in the history of long-distance swimming. Return to the Inductee list