NEW YORK, NY October 27, 2008 —The first woman to swim the English Channel was a 21-year-old New Yorker named Gertrude Ederle. Three years ago, one of her old training routes was revived -- a swim from Battery Park, at the tip of Manhattan, to Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It's a 17.5 mile swim that comes as close as you can get to the conditions of the English Channel, as six people found out yesterday. Lara Pellegrinelli has the details.