What a hero.
>>"I've always been swimming for peace and friendship. I decided to dedicate the Amazon swim also to the preservation of the rain forest and clean waters," he said
>>Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 3,375 miles down the world's greatest river, defying piranhas, snakes, crocodiles and even sharks.
>>Buckets of animal blood will be loaded onto support boats to distract flesh-eating fish and reptiles during the 52-year-old's 70-day odyssey -- which would break his own world length record for a swim.
This will help the world soooo much, a Nobel Peace Prize in the making? And well, other than throwing all that Blood in the water, what a great way to promote clean water! LOL
But he explains it all.....
>>Born in the former communist Yugoslavia, Strel became a professional marathon swimmer in 1978. "As a young boy I was beaten a lot by my parents and schoolmasters. This no doubt contributed greatly to my ability to ignore pain and endure," he says on his Web site.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070119/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_swimmer_amazon
>>"I've always been swimming for peace and friendship. I decided to dedicate the Amazon swim also to the preservation of the rain forest and clean waters," he said
>>Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 3,375 miles down the world's greatest river, defying piranhas, snakes, crocodiles and even sharks.
>>Buckets of animal blood will be loaded onto support boats to distract flesh-eating fish and reptiles during the 52-year-old's 70-day odyssey -- which would break his own world length record for a swim.
This will help the world soooo much, a Nobel Peace Prize in the making? And well, other than throwing all that Blood in the water, what a great way to promote clean water! LOL
But he explains it all.....
>>Born in the former communist Yugoslavia, Strel became a professional marathon swimmer in 1978. "As a young boy I was beaten a lot by my parents and schoolmasters. This no doubt contributed greatly to my ability to ignore pain and endure," he says on his Web site.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070119/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_swimmer_amazon
