US man to swim solo across Pacific Ocean's shark-infested Red Triangle





Joe Locke, 41, a technology and equity analyst from Mill Valley, Calif., will plunge into 53-degree water at 1:30 a.m, and expects to finish in 13 to 16 hours, reports Discovery News.



Locke is not the first to have chosen to trek across the same stretch. In late May, a mixed-gender relay team became the first to successfully swim a 30-mile distance through the Triangle.



Two weeks later, the first all-female relay followed suit in rougher conditions.



If Locke succeeds in this challenge, he'll become the second person ever to solo-swim the Red Triangle route.



The last time someone pulled and kicked across the whole route was in 1967, when swimmer Ted Erikson finished in a time of 14 hours and 38 minutes.



The Red Triangle, which covers a roughly triangular area from the Golden Gate Bridge across to the Farallon Islands and down to Big Sur, is a dangerous destination for open-water swimmers.



Of the 249 unprovoked great-white attacks that happened between 1876 and 2010, 93 of them-or 37 percent were in the Red Triangle, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File.





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London, June 13: A California man would be attempting to swim solo across the cold, shark-filled waters of the Pacific Ocean's Red Triangle on Tuesday.