Pedro Ordenes is an Alcatraz legend, having swum the famous route over 1000 times!! Pedro runs Water World Swim that organizes many swims in San Francisco Bay, California and across the world. I was lucky enough to swim Alcatraz with Water World Swim recently in April 2023.
Pedro is an exceptionally accomplished open water swimmer, perhaps the highlight being swimming the Strait of Magellan in South America, in 3.5°C with 60 km/hr winds and 3-5 feet swells against 12-14 knot currents! He has also swum a double crossing of the Beagle Channel between Chile and Argentina. Pedro is now also a very well respected open-water coach.
Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:
- Out In The Sticks - Escape From The Alcatraz - CVMR
- Prisonnier D Alcatraz - Deadline313
- Sonus Locus: Doors of Alcatraz - Analog Soul
- Jail - J-Seiei Beatz
- Sapphire - Tobu
Image from Water World Swim
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