Dina Levačić preps in Galway bay and Fastnet Rock

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The Bristol Channel swim project included Galway bay and Fastnet Rock swims as part of the preparatory and acclimatization part in Ireland.


  • 16.07.2023. -The unpredictable Irish weather played with the start date for the 10.5km Galway Bay swim. From the very start, Dina started decisively. She grabbed the sea hard and very quickly reached her first and second hydration and continued on kilometer by kilometer. Everything was according to plan until the sixth kilometer, when there was a sudden and unexpected change of wind on the westerly, which disrupted Dina's rhythm, and it took some time to find her stroke. Seeing the shallows below her, she knew she was close to her goal. All the thoughts in my head disappeared, the bottom of the sea was getting clearer and the land was getting closer. The stopwatch stopped at 02:41:14, equaling the women's record.


  • 25.07.2023. - The 20.5km Fastnet Rock swim was another special adventure for Dina, accompanied by an atypical Irish day with plenty of sun and little wind. Along the way, there was no shortage of obstacles. A little colder than expected and the cold part (11-13°C) that seemed to last forever made swimming "interesting". For Dina, it was a special experience to finish swimming under the impressive Fastnet lighthouse, right at the time of the legendary Fastnet regatta. Reaching the goal is always a special feeling of satisfaction, happiness, pride. For Dina, this time it was a new women's record time of 05:29:29.


After last year's successful North Channel swim and this year's Galway Bay and Fastnet Rock swims, Dina became the SIXTH person in the world to achieve the Irish Triple Crown.


  • 09.08.2023. -The main goal of the season was to swim the Bristol Channel (27 km) between Wales and England. The specificity of the swim itself is the extremely strong current that is created due to the second largest difference in tides and currents in the world, which is why Dina ended up swimming 42 km in a new total route record time of 09:51:42.


This swim, together with the North Channel and the English Channel, constitutes the Original Triple Crown of long-distance swimming, and Dina became the 13th person in the world to do so, and also the first person from Croatia to swim across the Bristol Channel and the first person from Croatia to achieved the Original Triple Crown as well as the Irish Triple Crown.

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