Meet the First Man to Swim Across the Red Sea | 5 News

How far would you go to highlight something you really cared about? A British endurance swimmer has just completed the world’s first swim across the Red Sea to raise awareness of the threat that climate change is posing to coral reefs. Lewis Pugh, who’s also a UN patron swam 123 kilometers from Saudi Arabia to Egypt ahead of next month’s COP27 talks where he’ll address world leaders.