Pugh just can't stop swimming

Last updated at 16:28 19 February 2007


British multiple world-record-holder, endurance swimmer and environmental campaigner, swims past the Male International Airport during his epic swim across the Maldives.

Pugh

Pugh has undertaken the swim to highlight the crisis of climate change. Rising sea levels caused by global warming are threatening to drown the Maldives, which is mad up of about 1,200 low-lying coral islands in the Indian Ocean.

Last year Pugh became the first swimmer to complete a long distance swim in all 5 oceans of the world. He was also the first person to swim the entire length of the River Thames.

Pugh has been likened to Forrest Gump, the colourful character played by Tom Hanks in the 1994 movie of the same name who breaks into a run and cannot stop. He continues to run for three years, two months and fourteen days.

Fortunately Pugh's Maldives challenge is only expected to take 10 days.

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