Five women will attempt to swim across Lake Ontario lengthwise starting Tuesday morning, in a gruelling 305 kilometre relay they expect will take five straight days of non-stop swimming.
The swim will begin at 10 a.m. in Kingston and is expected to end in Burlington.
The women — who range in age from 18 to 61 — will swim in two-hour shifts through the day and night, sleeping and eating on an entourage of sailboats and zodiacs.
They hope to raise $300,000 for Plan International's 'Because I am a girl' campaign.
All of the women are accomplished long-distance solo swimmers. Colleen Shields, 61, Nicole Mallette, 48, Samantha Whiteside, 23 and Rebekah Boscariol, 18, have successfully completed the Lake Ontario crossing.
Eighteen-year-old Mona Sharari, the youngest member of the group, swam across the English Channel last year.
The length-wise crossing has never been completed, but the solo crossing from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Toronto has been completed 57 times, the majority of them by women.
The crossing was first completed by Marilyn Bell in 1954, when she was 16-years-old.
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