Hyderabad, March 29: A senior Andhra Pradesh IPS officer Rajiv Trivedi has created history by becoming the fastest man to swim across the Palk Strait.
Trivedi (50), Additional Director General of Police from Andhra Pradesh along with 48-year-old Balasaheb Ramchandra Ghadge, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) from Maharashtra swam across the Palk Strait from Sri Lanka to India in 12 hours and 31 minutes.
They started the 30 km long swim from Talaimannar coast at 4.00 am (IST) on March, 25 and reached Dhanushkodi, a city at the southern tip of Rameswaram island in Tamil Nadu, at 4.30 pm (IST) after swimming for 12 hours and 31 minutes non-stop.
Trivedi and Ghadge are the first police officers from India to successfully swim across the Palk Strait with Trivedi also becoming the senior-most person to swim that sea route.
–PTI