You hear about people swimming the English Channel (distance 23.69 miles,though with the pull of the tides the distance varies between 30-40 miles) and other ocean swims,but why is the Guinness World Record swim of the Mississippi never mentioned? The distance is considerably longer and doesn't lack for hazards between gators,snakes,floating debris and pollution. The first person to swim the Mississippi was Fred P. Newton,he started the 1,826 mile swim July 6, 1930 and completed it in New Orleans in December of 1930. Since then the swim has been completed by two other people and oddly enough I never heard about their accomplishments either. Maybe it is because they weren't continuous swims that they seem to have been overlooked?
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