El Cruce is one of the world's most beautiful and
unique marathon swims. Held in the tropically warm and clear waters
off Cancún in Mexico, El Cruce was originally started in
1980 with 30 swimmers competing on a 3 km out-and-back course off the Isla
Mujeres. But the 1990s ushered in the start of a 10 km marathon swim from
Cancún to the Isla Mujeres where up to 50 swimmers swam over 400 submerged
sculptures of the Cancún Museo Subacuático (Cancún Underwater
Museum). But with the addition of the 10 km race in the 2008 Beijing Olympics,
race director Rafael Hernández organized a sudden spurt of steady growth:
from 230 in 2008 to 380 in 2009, 600 in 2010, 780 in 2011, 780 in 2012, 750 in
2013, and 750 in 2014 ages 15 to 70.
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