An Australian woman, Chloe McCardel, has set a new record for swimming the English Channel by completing her 44th crossing, the most ever by a single swimmer. Ms McCardel also holds the record of longest unassisted ocean swim – 77 miles (124km) from South Eleuthera Island to Nassau in the Bahamas. In 2015 she made a non-stop triple crossing of the Channel, which took almost 37 hours.