Saturday, January 20

Completely nuts? Or just a really good swimmer?

FEW would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 5430km 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.

Mr Strel starts on February 1 in Peru's jungle town of Atalaya and hopes to finish on Brazil's Atlantic coast on April 11.

Article from NEWS.com.au

4 comments:

Mal said...

I'll go with completely nuts...

Anonymous said...

Bryce, why do you have an inactive blog attached to your profile? Not very stimulating...

Unknown said...

yep... im going with nuts. actually just going with down right stupid!

the b00f™ said...

the b00f™ reckons either this bloke has an ego the size of Uranus or he can't afford a boat!

10 bucks he gets eaten by a goldfish... that waterfall is gonna hurt! haha