WE’D rather do this journey on a cruise ship, but each to their own… Maltese swimmer Neil Agius (pictured) has broken the longest non-stop ocean swim record. Agius swam 125.6 kilometres without a wetsuit from Linosa, one of the Pelagie Islands in the Sicily Channel, back to Malta in just...
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WE’D rather do this journey on a cruise ship, but each to their own…
Maltese swimmer Neil Agius (pictured) has broken the longest non-stop ocean swim record.
Agius swam 125.6 kilometres without a wetsuit from Linosa, one of the Pelagie Islands in the Sicily Channel, back to Malta in just over 52 hours.
The long-distance freestyle specialist swam through a pair of sunrises and sunsets, having initially intended to swim 153km from Tunisia to Malta – hopes which were dashed when his crew was unable to leave Africa because of bad weather.
More than 30 privateers watched over Agius during the swim, but over two million watched online via a live stream, according to Maltese sources.
Agius used the publicity from the swim to highlight plastic pollution in our oceans.
Australians may have been watching on with mixed emotions, with our own Chloe McCardle’s previous world record set in 2014 now gazumped by barely a kilometre.
Oh, by the way, Agius’ girlfriend proposed to him prior to the attempt – and he said yes.
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