Tag: Lewis Gordon Pugh
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Lewis Pugh – Time to #BeatPollution
Lewis Pugh, endurance swimmer and UN Environment Patron of the Oceans has seen marine litter polluting the oceans all around the world. From South Georgia, he urges everyone to act now to #BeatPollution. #CleanSeas.
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Epic swim in freezing Antarctic waters
Lewis Pugh makes an incredible endurance swim in the Antartic Ocean to call for conservation around the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia.
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A Freezing Swim to Call Attention to Warming Waters
Before he got in the water on Saturday, Lewis Pugh was terrified. Mr. Pugh, 47, is a British endurance swimmer who has conquered a gantlet of extraordinary swims in the last 30 years, from a dip in a glacial lake in Mt. Everest to a full circuit around the Cape of Good Hope in South…
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Watch Lewis Pugh swim in the world’s coldest ocean wearing a Speedo
Lewis Pugh swims in the life-threatening conditions of the Antarctic Ocean where killer whales, leopard seals and the freezing temperatures of the water could kill him. And he does it all while wearing a Speedo. Pugh recently completed three swims in the Ross Sea where the icy water is 29 degrees Fahrenheit, and the only…
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Swimming the Antarctic in a Speedo
Deb Matejicka has jumped in some cold water, but this is next level.
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‘I have never felt pain like this before’: Lewis Pugh breaks record with Antarctic dip wearing only speedos
Lewis Pugh, who is the United Nation’s Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Patron of the Oceans, is undertaking a series of swims in the Antarctic Ocean to influence world leaders to make the Ross Sea – which is under serious threat from commercial fishing and global warming – a Marine Protected Area. And Pugh has spoken of…
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Lewis Pugh to tackle world’s most dangerous swim in Antarctic – wearing only speedos!
British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is embarking on the “most dangerous swims ever undertaken in the world” to call for a vast protected area in Antarctic waters. The swimmer is taking to the waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, braving freezing temperatures, leopard seals and killer whales in nothing more than his Speedo swimwear to raise…
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Lewis Pugh – Swimming Through Garbage
The swims were intended to draw attention to the health of the oceans. But I seriously underestimated the urgency of the issue I was swimming for. As the United Nations Patron of the Oceans, I have given many speeches stressing the need to protect our environment for the sake of our children and grandchildren. I…
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Lewis Pugh – Seven Swims; Arabian Sea
Ocean advocate and endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is undertaking the first long distance swim in all the 7 Seas (Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, Black, Red and North Seas) to highlight the urgent need for more Marine Protected Areas (essentially national parks in the sea).