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On Sunday, April 8, 2007, a 52-year-old self-described fat man in a Speedo by the name of Martin Strel swam 3,274 miles of the Amazon River. The Fish Man, as he was called by locals, almost died in the process several times. At the finish his blood pressure was at heart attack level, his entire body full of subcutaneous larvae, and besieged by dehydration and diarrhea and exhaustion. Strel undertook this epic swim to call attention to two issues he is concerned about: deforestation, and river pollution. Along the way he suffered from blisters, sunburn, exotic stomach illnesses, all the while trying to avoid piranhas, anacondas, crocodiles, alligators, river sharks, and a small fish known as the canduru, which when attracted by the smell of urine releases razor-sharp spines into the human orifice it has crawled into.
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Joanna Stewart
reviewed The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World's Deadliest River on April 24, 2015
The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World's Deadliest River
What an amazing accomplishment, Martin Strel is some kind of superhero. He is not your normal athlete, he isn't the finely tuned machine you'd expect to see when a person announces he is going to swim the Amazon. He is in his 50's and slightly fat, he breaks the number one rule of swimming, he'll have breakfast/lunch maybe a couple of beers or a glass of wine and then he'll start swimming, there is none of that "waiting 1 hour after eating before you go in". He seems unfazed with the predators he'll face in the water, he is a machine, it's eat, swim, sleep, eat, swim, sleep, day after day.
The book is easy to read, it's not a history or geography lesson, it's a journal written by one of the navigators. It contains his thoughts and concerns about Martin's wellbeing, it shows clearly how Martin deals with the psychological issues of constantly swimming and being in constant pain as the sun burns him, the water makes him ill and his wetsuit slowly chafes away his skin at the joints. You also get an insight into the logistics of running an expedition on a small boat with 23 people on board.
I am ashamed to admit that when this event happened I was completely unaware of it, Martin Strel has recently announced his next big swim so I'll be keeping a look out for updates on how that goes.
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