An athlete from Africa from southern British became the first person to swim throughout Martha Fenard Island on Monday, as he ended a 60 miles (97 km) journey over several days to raise awareness about the ordeal of sharks as the movie “jaw” approaches.
Louis Bug, 55, started swimming several hours a day in 47 degrees (8 ° C) on May 15. He wants to change public perceptions and encourage protection for animals at risk-who said that the film had led to “the bad guys, as a cold blood.”
After completing the last 1.2 miles (2 km) of swimming before we got out of the ocean in the Edgartown Harbour lighthouse, near “Jaws”: “We have fought sharks for 50 years.” “Now, we need peace with them.”
In total, Bug praised 24 hours for 12 days. It was his first stop in Edgarten after greeting the fans of the beach in the ice cream store, where he was enjoying a cone of salted caramel and berries.
The harsh water made cold swimming more difficult
Bug said that this was among the most difficult tolerated in a profession of approximately 40 years, which tells a lot to a person who was equal to ice rivers and volcanoes, and between mares of river, crocodiles and polar bears. Bug was the first athlete to swim across the Arctic and complete the swimming for long distances in each of the world’s oceans.
He said he expected to swim as difficult due to water and distance, and the fact that it was happening during the start of the shark migration season. But the weather has proven the most challenging element ever.
“It was a long journey, already – 12 days, cold water, continuous winds, waves, then always think about what might be under. It was the big swimming. It was very big swimming.” “When you swim for 12 days, you leave as one person and I think you are returning as a different person with a new reflection on what you went through.”
Day after day, Bug entered the waters of the cold island, which wears only trunks, hat and glasses, and always for the large weather when 7 inches (18 cm) of rain were thrown into parts of New England, and the streets capture in the Psalms of Martha.
In some days, he was able to make it slightly more than half a mile (1 km) before the wind and waves were impossible to see beyond the arm. In some cases, he had to compensate for a lost distance by swimming multiple legs in one day.
He said: “I was really feeling cold and swallowed a lot of sea water, and I did not make progress, then you think constantly,” Do we take the right path here? Should we go to the sea? Should we get close? “And at the same time you were fighting the currents.”
The British swimmer extends to South Africa, Louis Bug, before entering the water to complete the swimming of approximately 12 days throughout the island of Martha Fenard, Mass.
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The latest completion of the endurance swimmer aims to help protect sharks
But Bug – who has been called the United Nations sponsor in the oceans and is often swimming to raise awareness of environmental reasons – he said there is no swimming without danger, and that there is a need for radical measures to deliver his message: about 274,000 sharks are killed worldwide every day, at a rate of approximately 100 million every year, according to the American presence of progress in science.
On Monday, Bug called for the delivery of “Ecocide” sharks.
“I think the protection of sharks is the most important part of a panorama puzzle to protect the ocean,” he said.
“Jaws”, which was filmed in Edgartown, called Amery Island for the movie, created the Hollywood culture when it was released in the summer of 1975, put new box office records and earned three Oscars. The film will be views of the ocean for decades to come.
Director Stephen Spielberg and author Peter Pencheli expressed his regret that the viewers of the film became very afraid of sharks, and both of them later contributed to the preservation efforts with the decrease in their population, due to a large extent to commercial hunting.
Bug’s endeavor also coincided with the first confirmed vision in New England Aquarium this season of a white shark, off the nearby Nantukte island. As a preventive measure, Bug was accompanied by swimming by members of safety in the kayak boat and boats, its argument uses a “shark shield” to create a low -density electric field in water to deter shark fish without damaging them.
There were no scenes from the shark along the Bug trip, but he said he saw the sun, seals, and gray.
He is now planning to travel to New York for a few days to make swimming and discussing the preservation of sharks before returning to his home in Pleimouth, England.
“Now the real hard work begins, which gets this message to policymakers,” said Bug.
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