Overview

• They alternated in the water every two hours throughout the nearly 31-hour circumnavigation as a two-person relay.
• They started Thursday morning and finished at 14:27 local time on Friday after completing a full loop of the island.
• Unfavorable currents extended the planned route by about 10 kilometers to roughly 120 kilometers, with water temperatures near 24°C.
• Sea conditions worsened in the final six hours with heavy waves, Pohl experienced seasickness, and the pair swam the last four kilometers together to a cheered finish.
• Pohl is the first German woman to complete the Ocean’s Seven and Donaldson holds multiple open-water marks, and outlets including BILD labeled the Ibiza swim a world record or world premiere.