Rohan More, a Pune based swimmer, has become the first Indian and the first Asian to swim across Ocean Seven. He is also the youngest person in the world to do so.
Last Friday, More, 32, had completed the last leg of his feat swimming across the Cook Strait in 8 hours and 37 minutes and raising the Tricolour. Ocean Seven consists of seven long-distance open-water swims, and is considered the marathon swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.
It includes the North Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar. "Congratulations Rohan More. Punekar Rohan became the first Asian, first Indian to swim across the Ocean Seven. Rohan is the youngest person among only 9 people in the world who have achieved this feat," Pune MP Anil Shirole tweeted.
More also completed six of the Oceans Seven swims between 2014 and 2016: English Channel (13 hours and 23 minutes), North Channel (12 hours and 43 minutes), Catalina Channel (10 hours and 17 minutes), Molokai Channel (17 hours and 28 minutes), Tsugaru Strait (10 hours and 37 minutes) and Gibraltar Strait (3 hours and 56 minutes).