Limbless man beats swim challenge

A quadruple amputee has swum the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco as part of an effort to swim between all the world’s continents.

A quadruple amputee has swum the Straits 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 English Channel as well as between Indonesia and Papua-New Guinea, and between Asia and Africa in the Gulf of Aqaba.

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