The Pacific Ocean's Red Triangle seems to be having its renaissance -- at least in the minds of long-distance swimmers, who are suddenly swimming across the cold, shark-filled waters in force.
In late-May, a mixed-gender relay team became the first to successfully swim a 30-mile distance through the Triangle, from the California coast near the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands. The swim took them 14 hours, 45 minutes and eight seconds.
Two weeks later, the first all-female relay followed suit in rougher conditions, with a time of 16 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds. On Tuesday, 41-year-old swimmer Joe Locke will attempt to solo the same stretch.
Locke, a technology and equity analyst from Mill Valley, Calif., will plunge into 53-degree water at 1:30 a.m. His expects to finish in 13 to 16 hours, which means he'll be likely toweling off some time between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
