''Daunting'': Bureaucrat Swims From Gateway Of India To Elephanta Caves In Less Than 6 Hours
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Mr Prakash said he completed a distance of 16.20 km in 5 hours, and 26 minutes from the Gateway of India to Elephanta caves.
Krishna Prakash, a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, has claimed that he swam from the Gateway of India to Elephanta Caves in the Arabian Sea, and became the first person in the world to do so. On Sunday, the bureaucrat, assigned in Mumbai as Inspector General of Police in the VIP protection department, accomplished the feat during an adventurous sea swimming excursion. Today I completed the daunting task of swimming from Gateway of India to Elephanta caves and became the first person in the world to do so. Contrary to the popular swimming route of Elephanta caves to Gateway of India whereas swimmers ride the waves of the the high tides towards… pic.twitter.com/8IIX4O5Xho
Contrary to the popular swimming route, Mr Prakash said he took the challenge to swim against the waves to complete a distance of 16.20 km in 5 hours, and 26 minutes from the Gateway of India to Elephanta caves. He dedicated the expedition to 'Drowning Prevention Awareness.'
"Today I completed the daunting task of swimming from Gateway of India to Elephanta caves and became the first person in the world to do so. Contrary to the popular swimming route of Elephanta caves to Gateway of India whereas swimmers ride the waves of the the high tides towards gateway I decided to do it from the reverse side against the waves. I could swim a distance of 16.20 kms in 5 hrs 26 minutes," he claimed in a post on Twitter.
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