Uh, Petar Stoychev swam the English channel (32km) in less than 7 hours. In 1875 Matthew Webb made the crossing in under 22 hours (5 hours attributed to fightin

Uh, Petar Stoychev swam the English channel (32km) in less than 7 hours. In 1875 Matthew Webb made the crossing in under 22 hours (5 hours attributed to fighting the tides) and getting a jellyfish sting along the way. Kutral Ramesh at 13 became the youngest person to cross the English Channel, prior to this he crossed the Palk Strait 53km wide at its narrowest. In the same year, he completed a total of 6 channel crossings, the last of which was the Ten Degree Channel, which is an approximate 150km swim. If a 13 year old can swim 60km of ocean, I guess adults could have certainly made the 60km stretch. Also given that there's been the suggested presence of boats on Crete since about 130,000 years ago... they could have probably just made a dugout boat from one of the many plentiful tropical forests.