Île de Gorée

Jacques Tuset of France, the world's leading Prison Island Swims escapee

Île de Gorée is part of the Prison Island Swims (or the Triple Break or Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims that were nominated for the 2016 WOWSA Awards, a recognition of outstanding men, women, performances and offerings around the globe sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association in the category of World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year

Île de Gorée or Gorée Island is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Gorée is a small island 900 meters in length and 350 meters in width sheltered by the Cape Vert Peninsula located 2 kilometers (1.1 nautical miles or 1.2 miles) at sea from the main harbor of Dakar.

Gorée is famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade but relatively few slaves were processed or transported from there. Gorée is known as the location of the House of Slaves (French: Maison des esclaves), built by an Afro-French Métis family about 1780–1784. The House of Slaves is now used as a tourist destination to show the horrors of the slave trade throughout the Atlantic world.

Prison Island Swims

• Île de Gorée is one of the 11 open water swims of the Octad of Open Water Swims or Prison Island Swims that includes the following open water swims around formerly well-guarded isolated prison islands. Robben Island, Alcatraz Island, Spike Island and Rottnest Island are now 21st century sites better known for challenging open water swims with tricky currents and surrounding marine life. Convicts of the past have given way to contemporary open water swimming traditionalists and wetsuit-clad triathletes and swimmers.
• Jacques Tuset completed a prison island swim from Île de Gorée.

10 Escapes Video

Courtesy of Jacques Tuset and Team Aquadeus

External links

• The Magic of Three: Triple Crown Swims
• The Octad Of Open Water - Prison Island Swims
• Quite The Quatro, Swimming For Seven
• Jacques Tuset Makes Another Escape From Prison
• Jacques Tuset Breaks Out Of Prison...Again And Again
• Jacques Tuset Makes Another Escape To Shore
• Jacques Tuset, The Houdini Of The Open Water
• Jacques Tuset Knocks Off 8 Ball
• Tanzania's Changuu Added To The Prison Island Swims
• Triple Break - Global List Of Prison Island Swims
• Triple Break Grows To Worldwide Prison Island Swims
• Jacques Tuset Makes An Escape In The Ice
• Jacques Tuset Honored By The Hall Of Fame
• Jacques Tuset, The World's Greatest Escape Artist
• World's Greatest Escape Artist Swims From Angel Island
• Since Jacques Tuset's Last Escapes Around The World
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• An Open Water Adventure From Île Saint-Joseph
• Jacques Tuset, Ned Denison, Jills Vanegas Escape Île St-Joseph
• Swimming To Freedom, Triple Break Gone Global
• Jacques Tuset Honored By The Hall Of Fame
• World's Greatest Escape Artist Swims From Angel Island
• The Past versus Contemporary History In Gorée
• Hundreds swim to former Senegal slave island in annual race