Philippe Croizon is attempting to swim between all the world’s continents, with help of prosthetic flippers and snorkel
Philippe Croizon celebrates completing his five-hour swim across the Straits of Gibraltar. Photograph: El Yaakoubi Aziz/AP
Associated Press in Dalia guardian.co.uk
A quadruple amputee has successfully swum across the strait of Gibraltar to Morocco as part of an effort to swim between all the world’s continents.
Philippe Croizon, who lost his arms and legs in an electrical accident, has already swum the Channel as well as between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and between Asia and Africa in the Gulf of Aqaba.
Croizon swims with the aid of prosthetic flippers attached to his leg stumps and a snorkel to breathe through. He made the nine-mile crossing from Tarifa, Spain, in just over five hours with a friend.
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