The Hellespont is like a vast river, and there is a strong and constant current that sweeps down from the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean. As it narrows, so the current gets much stronger.

Hellespont News: JRC Reports ECDIS Success In Greece, C-Bird Provides VSAT Communications At Sea, Drifting North Atlantic Chemical Tanker Taken In Tow, Recent. Friday, June 20, 2025.

Swimming the Hellespont should take about 90 minutes; maybe a couple of hours if it's choppy. But the actual trip takes four days, minimum. Just getting there takes an age.

Hellespont Hammonia completed the naming of the Hellespont Pride, one of six tankers under construction for the company at New Century Shipbuilding Co Ltd in Jingjiang, China.

To swim the Hellespont (in warmer water) in August, or for details of other SwimTrek tours, visit swimtrek.com; for more on open-water swimming, visit outdoorswimmingsociety.com.

The Hellespont is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with more than 180 container ships passing through every day, en route to Istanbul and, beyond it, Odessa and Sebastopol.

Leander bares tale of Hellespont swim in exclusive interview. First of all I want to say how I owe every bit of my success to Hero, my fiancee, who was at … ...

Sunset on the Dardanelles Strait at Gallipoli in Turkey. When Lord Byron swam here, he referred to it as the Hellespont. Ancient Troy (Homer can explain) is on distant left side; the World War I ...