{"id":438712,"date":"2020-07-05T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=438712"},"modified":"2020-07-05T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:10:22","slug":"phoenix-swimmer-henry-palmer-finishes-santa-barbara-channel-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/phoenix-swimmer-henry-palmer-finishes-santa-barbara-channel-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Swimmer Henry Palmer Finishes Santa Barbara Channel Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the first sanctioned marathon swims since the falling of COVID-19 restrictions, <strong>Henry Palmer<\/strong> completed a swim across the Santa Barbara Channel this week.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer finished the swim from Oxnard, Calif., to Anacapa Island in six and a half hours. He covered 14.3 miles in what was originally planned to be a 12.2-mile swim. 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He was accompanied by teammate <strong>Joe Zemaitis<\/strong> and his father, <strong>Tom Palmer<\/strong>, in the support boat.<\/p>\n<p>The swim is the latest open-water feat for Palmer. His longest was the 20 Bridges swim around Manhattan Island last year, covering 28.5 miles in just shy of eight hours. He\u2019s also done one-mile swims to Alcatraz and the Golden Gate in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Among the next swims on Palmer\u2019s radar are the Lake Tahoe Open Water Swim, <a href=\"https:\/\/tahoeswimming.com\/events\/lake-tahoe-open-water-swim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved to August<\/a>, and a chance to do the 20-mile Catalina Island swim, though the latter <a href=\"https:\/\/swimcatalina.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will have to wait until 2021<\/a>. Open water swims have also been put on hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-swimming-releases-open-water-guidelines\/\">during the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He really found a passion for open water and set some great goals for 2020,&#8221; Zemaitis said. &#8220;The drive comes from a desire to have a unique and almost impossible-sounding goal and push the limits of what&#8217;s possible at a young age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2020\/07\/02\/brophys-henry-palmer-fights-off-challenges-finish-marathon-swim\/5367770002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read about Henry Palmer in the Arizona Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the first sanctioned marathon swims since the falling of COVID-19 restrictions, Henry Palmer completed a swim across the Santa Barbara Channel this week. 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