Dahlgren sailor broke record for swimming while handcuffed Follow Us Question of the Day KING GEORGE, Va. (AP) - Sailor Ben Katzman was handcuffed on Saturday for breaking and entering. For almost four hours straight, he broke through the water at the King George YMCA Pool on his way to unofficially entering his name into the Guinness World Records for swimming the longest distance while handcuffed. The Navy corpsman blew the existing record, of 3.4 miles, out of the water as he covered the length of the pool 344 times for a total of 5.35 miles. He has to send photos, the complete video and logbooks detailing his time to Guinness for official certification, but the event still marked the longest and farthest time he’s ever swum, with or without a metal ring around his wrists.