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Buckets of Blood Readied for Slovenian’s Amazon Swim
"I've always been swimming for peace and friendship. I decided to dedicate the Amazon swim also to the preservation of the rain forest and clean waters."
- Martin Strel, Amazon swimmer
Lima, Peru - Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 3,375 miles down the world's greatest river, defying piranhas, snakes, crocodiles and even sharks. "I've always been swimming for peace and friendship. I decided to dedicate the Amazon swim also to the preservation of the rain forest and clean waters," he said.
He says on his Web site that he has "a dream" - proving to the world that nothing is impossible and that the world can one day live in peace.