No, strong current was when half the field finished on the Diamond Head side of the start a few years back. That was an amazing site, lucky no one drown it was roughwater for sure. Good luck.

done it many times when i was living in hawai'i, but now i'm in nor cal. it can be a great race, or really suck because of the current. have fun!

This is a no-go for most tri-people since most tri swims are either neutral in current, but short on distance, or downstream most of the way, and preferably both downstream and short. We can't have these upstream or against-the-current swims because that would make the race entirely too hard. This sort of hard swim would make tri-people actually train as hard for the swim as for the B and R, and we would not want to burden the tri population with true 3-sport training:)

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I'm not swimming but a group of guys I train with are there for both Waikiki and Maui channel swims. Its on my list too - just not this year.