'Known as 'Mr Alcatraz' Gary has done the world famous 'escape' over 760 times. But he is not only limited to San Francisco, in the 21 years since he started open water swimming Gary has completed an incredible list of swims including

• The 12-mile Indian Ocean swim from Perth Australia to Rottnest Island
• The Amazon River (replete with piranhas)
• Peru's Lake Titicaca (the world's highest navigable lake at 12,500 feet)
• The peat black waters of Scotland's legendary Loch Ness
• Relay crossings of the English Channel, Catalina Channel, Santa Barbara Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, Tampa Bay, Boston Harbor and the Bay of Naples, Italy
• Relay circumnavigations of Manhattan Island and Key West; the 10-mile San Francisco Bay to Breaker swim
• Inter island swims in Greece, Croatia, the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas
• Swims across numerous rivers in the U.S. including the muddy Mississippi and Washington DC's Potomac

Gary is an American Swimming Coaches Association coach (level 2), a USA Triathlon coach (level 1), a USA Triathlon race director and the co-author of Open Water Swimming: Lessons from Alcatraz.'