Shyama makes it across the Palk Strait

The Indian woman who believes that nothing is impossible has been able to swim across the Palk Strait.

 

47-year old Indian, Syamala Goli, swam from Dhanushkodi in South India to Talimannar in Sri Lanka on Friday  (19) Speaking on the shores of  Sri Lanka athlete and entrepreneur, Goli said that this is a “Indo-Lanka friendship event,” She is the 13th to swim across this 30 Km stretch and becomes the second women to do so.

 

After completing her swim she said that she hopes that her act would inspire women to achieve things at a higher level.

 

India’s Mihir Sen in 1966 was the first woman to successfully swim across the Palk Strait. Sri Lankan multiple Guinness record holder Kumar Anandan swam the Palk Strait both ways in 51 hours in 1971. Anandan died of hypothermia attempting to swim across the English Channel in 1984. India’s National Swimmer