navigable lake. While Titicaca's water, at 13-14 °C (56-58 °F), is warmer than that of the Bering Strait, the high elevation and unidentified biting creatures offered an unusual challenge. The swimmer covered the distance of around 10 miles from Copacabana, Bolivia, to the village of Chimbo, Peru, in 3 hours 48 minutes. The Bolivian Navy provided support boats. Another of her accomplishments was swimming more than a mile (1.6 km) in the waters of Antarctica. Cox was in the water for 25 min, swimming 1.22 miles (1.96 km). Her book about the experience, Swimming to Antarctica, was published in 2004. Her second book, Grayson, details her encounter with a lost baby gray whale during an early morning workout off the coast of California. It was published in 2006. In August 2006, joined by local swimmers, Lynne Cox swam across the Ohio River in Cincinnati from the Serpentine Wall to Newport, Kentucky, to bring attention to plans to decrease the water-quality standards for the Ohio River. In 2011, she published South with the Sun, both a biography of Roald Amundsen and a chronicle of her 2007 swimming expedition to Greenland, Baffin Island and Alaska, tracing Amundsen's Northwest Passage expedition. Works Swimming to Antarctica, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 Grayson, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 South with the Sun, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011 Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival Guide For Triathletes And Open Water Swimmers, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013 Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas", Schwartz & Wade, 2014 Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart, Alfred A. Knopf, September 2016, Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2022, Awards and honors 2014 California Book Awards Juvenile Finalist for "Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas" 2015 Irma Black Award Honor The asteroid 37588 Lynnecox was named in her honor. See also List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame References External links Lynne Cox's website American long-distance swimmers English Channel swimmers Cook Strait swimmers 1957 births Living people American female swimmers Swimmers from Massachusetts UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's swimmers People from Boston