establishes new ways for swimming over straits. On Friday, 30 August 2002, the Georgian historian and political scientist Henry KUPRASHVILI performed a Guinness record swimming across the Dardanelles, Turkey. The performance has no analogue in the world. With his hands and legs bound at four points or in the ancient Georgian military-training style swam 12 (twelve) kilometers in 3 hours and 15 minutes from port Eceabat (European side) to the village of Kepez near Çanakkale (Asian side), beginning at 16.30 p.m. and ending at 19.45, local time. Генри Купрашвили
