Tag: Lewis Gordon Pugh
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Swimming With Sharks: Lewis Pugh’s Mission to Save Our Ocean | UN Environment Programme
For decades, sharks have been portrayed as killing machines. However, it’s humans who kill an estimated 274,000 sharks every single day. 50 years after the movie Jaws hit the big screen, UN Environment Programme Patron of the Oceans @lewis.pugh is swimming 96km around Martha’s Vineyard to rewrite the narrative and challenge long-held fears about sharks.…
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Man Takes Part in 62-Mile Swim Challenge to End ‘Jaws’ Fear of Sharks | Good Morning America
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh wants to undo some of the fear of sharks generated by the 1975 summer blockbuster film.
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Endurance Swimmer Makes History and NYC Ballet Turns 75 | Eye on America
In New York, famed endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh completes a 315-mile journey down the Hudson River to promote river preservation. Then in California, we meet the first master sommelier in professional sports. Watch these stories and more on “Eye on America” with host Michelle Miller.
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British-South African Swimmer Lewis Pugh Takes the Stage | Global Citizen Festival 2023
British-South African endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh takes the stage at Global Citizen Festival in New York City’s Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023.
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Lewis Pugh: Rivers Are ‘Arteries of Our Planet,’ We Need ‘Healthy Rivers’ for a ‘Healthy Planet’ | MSNBC
54-year-old swimmer and climate activist Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim the entire Hudson River, arriving in New York City for climate week, after swimming in it 50 years ago amid its pollution. He joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss how toxic waterways can be revived, and that clean rivers are essential to clean…
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Endurance Swimmer Lewis Pugh to Swim the Hudson in Bid for Clean Waters | Times Union
Lewis Pugh who swam the length of the English Channel, in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans and last year became the first person to swim across the Red Sea. On Sunday, he intends to start his journey from Henderson Lake in Essex County, making it to New York Harbor in about 30 days. Read Times Union
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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…
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British Swimmer Crosses Red Sea to Highlight Coral Reef Plight, Climate Change | Arirang News
And finally… in a world first, a person has swum across the Red Sea. British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh completed the 123-kilometer swim on Wednesday. He did it to raise awareness of the dangers that the Red Sea’s coral reefs face,… as a result of worsening climate change. The UN Patron of the Oceans took…
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Swimming Inside a Melted Iceberg | Dave Malkoff
Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, is a British-South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate. Dubbed the “Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming”, he is the first person to complete a long-distance swim in every ocean of the world, and he frequently swims in vulnerable ecosystems to draw attention to their plight. Dave Malkoff catches up with…