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Article: Slovenian Ends Amazon Swim After 65 Days
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- April 7, 2007
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon river Saturday that could set a new world record for distance - one he's broken three times already.
After nine weeks, Martin Strel arrived near the city of Belem, the capital of the jungle state of Para, ending a swim almost as long as the drive from Miami to Seattle. Strel averaged about 50 miles a day since beginning his odyssey at the source of the world's second-longest river in Peru on Feb. 1.
By Thursday evening, he was struggling with dizziness, vertigo, high blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea and delirium, his Web site ...
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Article: Slovenian Finishes Amazon Swim
AP Online;
April 7, 2007 ;
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... ... days after he began his swim, Strel developed second-degree burns ... pillow case for protection, but Strel did not use it all the time ... Guinness World Records, the Amazon swim will be the fourth time Strel has broken the world record ...
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