Drakes Island
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Drakes Island 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
Drakes Island is an island in England, located 0.75 km to the mainland. Two famous Roundheads were imprisoned from 1662 to 1683 and both died on the island.
Open Water Swimming[edit]
- It is now designated as a prison island swim and is part of the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims.
- Jacques Tuset completed a prison island swim from Drakes Island.
External links[edit]
- Triple Crown of Prison Escapes
- Shhhhh...Don't Tell Anyone About The Prison Break
- Strange But True 7-Hour Open Water Swim
- The Octad Of Open Water - Prison Island Swims
- Quite The Quatro, Swimming For Seven
- Nick Glendinning Breaks Out, Completes The Triple Break
- Jacques Tuset Makes An Escape In The Ice
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- 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
- 2014 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nominees
- 2014 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year Nominees
- 2014 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
- 2014 WOWSA Awards Nominees
- 2014 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nominees
- What A Performance In The Open Water
- Alexandr Brylin, Grigori Prokopchuk's Diomedes Swim Is 2014 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
- Open Water Swimming Around Bastøy Prison Island
- 3 Channels For Kizuna Enei Oudan Project
- Jacques Tuset Knocks Off 8 Ball
- Tanzania's Changuu Added To The Prison Island Swims
- Isola di Capraia In The Tuscan Archipelago
- Isola di Pianosa, Protected Marine Beauty
- Where Fred And Mary Swam, Others Follow
- Jacques Tuset, Nageur De L'extrême
- An Open Water Adventure From Île Saint-Joseph
- Jacques Tuset, Ned Denison, Jills Vanegas Escape Île St-Joseph
- 2016 WOWSA Awards Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nominees
- 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