Veteran Assamese swimmer Elvis Ali Hazarika becomes the first from North East to cross North Channel.

• Veteran Assamese swimmer Elvis Ali Hazarika – has become the first from the North East to cross the North Channel.
• The North Channel is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland.
• Elvis and his team clocked a timing of 14 hours 38 minutes to achieve this feat.
• With this, Elvis has become the oldest Indian swimmer to cross the North Channel.

About the North Channel:

• The North Channel starts north of the Isle of Man, where the Irish Sea ends, and flows northwest into the Atlantic Ocean.
• The narrowest part of the strait lies between Mull of Kintyre and Torr Head. The width of the channel here is 19 kilometers.
• The deepest part is known as Beaufort’s Dyke.
• The North Channel is a part of the marine area and International Hydrographic Organisation officially classifies it as the “Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland”.