Paris Mayor Swims in Seine River to Prove Safety Ahead of Olympics
PARIS (AP) — After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo bathed in the long-polluted Seine on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to show the river is clean enough to host the 2024 Olympic swimming events and the opening ceremony on the same river, scheduled for nine days later. Clad in a wetsuit and goggles, Hidalgo […]
Paris mayor swims in Seine River to prove it’s clean ahead of Olympic Games
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the long-polluted Seine on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to show the river is clean enough to host Olympic swimming events. Since 2015, $1.5 billion has been spent to clean up the Seine, building a huge underground reservoir in central Paris, upgrading sewer infrastructure, and upgrading wastewater treatment plants. The […]
Shark swims past LI lifeguard on surfboard, prompts closure
It was a surprising encounter. A 7-foot shark approached a Long Island lifeguard who was canoeing off the coast of Lido Beach on Monday afternoon, forcing the beach to be temporarily closed, local authorities said. The lifeguard remained calm when the shark’s distinctive fin surfaced a few feet from the board he was on about […]
Riley Gaines swims to shore from Alcatraz with ‘most impressive Navy Seals’
Perhaps the Anglin brothers could use some advice from Riley Gaines.. (Or maybe not? We’ll never know.) Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer who has since fought for fairness in women’s sports, posted to X on Friday that she had “successfully swam Alcatraz.” The infamous prison-turned-museum is located on San Francisco Bay and requires a 1.25-mile […]
Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month
A young killer whale trapped in a Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month swam through a bottleneck during high tide early Friday morning and reached an inlet where it could be released into the open sea, officials said. In a statement, the Ehatesaht and Nuchatlahat First Nations said in a statement that a […]
White shark LeeBeth swims 2,000 miles to Gulf of Mexico from South Carolina
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‘Quite a surprise’: king penguin swims thousands of kilometres to find itself on South Australian beach | Australia news
King penguins have migrated from the Antarctic region to the South Australian coastline, where they are likely to remain on land for a “catastrophic molt”. Members of a local birding association were surprised to find the bird on the coast, thousands of kilometers from its normal habitat. Every year, penguins lose all their feathers. Then, […]