PJ Duffey

Boneyards, site of the Shell Festival Sea Swim in South Africa. Photo by Clive Wright

Open Water Swimming Highlights

He won the Triple Mile race at the 2018 JBay Cold Water Swim Classic in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa.
He tied for first with Siegfried Lokotsch in the first annual 2.5 km Shell Festival Sea Swim, a 2.5 km swim through Boneyards at Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Province of South Africa.
He won the Bell Bouy Challenge.
He won the Shipwreck Swim.
He completed the 5 km Shipwreck swim in Cape Town in 11ºC water on 2 December 2012.
He has completed the 8 km Nelson Bay Bell Buoy Challenge.
He finished second overall at the inaugural JBay Cold Water Swim Classic 12.5ºC water in Marina Martinique near Jeffreys Bay on the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
He won the 3 km swim in Round 1 in 2013 Metsi Open Water Swim Series in Marina Martinique near Jeffreys Bay.
He won the 5 km Pulse Swim in Plettenberg Bay in 2014.

Duffy organized and completed an 11 km rounding of Cape Recife, the southeastern tip of the African continent on 28 February 2015 in 3 hours 17 minutes together with Rudi Schoeman (3 hours 18 minutes), Iain Geddes (3 hours 21 minutes), Kevin Grey (3 hours 23 minutes), Brenton Williams (3 hours 33 minutes), Richden Jute (3 hours 34 minutes), and Ralph West (3 hours 34 minutes). The swim was escort paddled by Terry Olivier and sanctioned by the Cape Long Distance Swimming Association.