Martin Strel, is a Slovenian long-distance swimmer, one of the most elite endurance athletes best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers. Strel holds successive Guinness World Records for swimming the Danube river, the Mississippi River, the Yangtze River, and the Amazon River.
Martin has been swimming ultra-marathons and raising an important awareness of clean waters for many years. He has dedicated several swims to the protection of environmental resources.
Many people still cannot believe what he has done so far, so that’s why they sometimes describe him as “Daredevil”, “Fishman”, “Human Fish” or even “The Craziest Man in the World”.
He goes into depth about his journey with raising awareness about the bad health of water bodies around the world that's caused by plastic pollution. His main objective is to tell the world to rethink how they consume plastic and choose more sustainable life choices such as switching to glass bottles.
0:00 Introduction
3:08 Why he swam the Amazon
6:40 Why Martin Loves Dubai
7:26 The World Swim
15:32 The Plastic Problem
17:22 Switch to Glass Bottles
22:10 Why David stays away from water
23:48 Bitten by Pirahna
25:26 Thank you Martin
