Assamese swimmer Elvis Ali Hazarika becomes the first from North East to cross North Channel
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Popular Assamese swimmer Elvis Ali Hazarika became the first swimmer from Northeast India to cross the North Channel.
IMPORTANT FACTS
- Elvis Ali Hazarika has also become the oldest swimmer in India to swim across the North Channel.
It took Elvis and his team 14 hours and 38 minutes to achieve the feat.
Hazarika, earlier this year, became the first person from North East India to cover the Indo Arabian Gateway Mumbai circle with his relay team.
In November 2021, he became the first Assamese to successfully swim from Dharamtar Jetty to the Gateway Of India, Arabian Sea, the total length of which is around 38 kilometres.
In 2019 itself, he became the first person from Assam to cross the Catalina Channel in the United States.
What is the North Channel ?
The North Channel is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland.
It begins north of the Isle of Man, where the Irish Sea ends and runs north-west into the Atlantic Ocean.
The width of the Northern Channel is 21 km, at its narrowest point located between Tor Head in Northern Ireland and the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.
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