Swims Across The Lake
As of 2012, nearly 50 people have successfully swum across the lake. The first person who accomplished the feat was Marilyn Bell, who did it in 1954 at the age of 16. Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park is named in her honor. The park opened in 1984, and is located just to the east of the spot where Bell completed her swim.
In 1974, Diana Nyad became the first person who swam across the lake against the current (from north to south).
On August 19, 2012, 14-year-old Annaleise Carr became the youngest person to swim across the lake. She completed the 52-kilometre (32-mile) crossing from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marilyn Bell Park in just under 27 hours.
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Famous quotes containing the words swims and/or lake:
“He that depends
Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)