Vineyard Haven, Massacho 62 miles (100 km) multiple swimming days About Martha Fenard on Monday, with the aim of becoming the first person to become the first person to swim throughout the island.
Louis Bug started swimming for several hours a day in 47 degrees (8 ° C) on May 15 to raise awareness about the ordeal of sharks with the movie “Jaws” approaching his fiftieth birthday. He wants to change public perceptions and encourage protection for risk animals-which he said that the film was “wicked, as a cold blood.”
“It was a film about sharks attacking humans, and for 50 years, we attacked the sharks,” he said before we set out in the ocean near the Edgarten lighthouse. “It is completely not sustainable. It’s mad. We need to respect them.”
Bug, 55, said that this will be among the most difficult tolerated in endurance, which tells a lot to a person who has been crushed near icy rivers and volcanoes, and between river mares, crocodiles and polar bears. Bug was the first athlete to swim across the Arctic and complete the swimming for long distances in each of the world’s oceans.
But Bug, who is often swimming to raise the level of awareness of environmental causes – was named as the United Nations sponsor of the Ocean – he said there is no swimming without danger, and that there is a need for radical measures to deliver his message: about 274,000 sharks are killed globally every day – at a rate of approximately 100 million every year, according to the American presence to achieve science progress.
“Jaws”, which was filmed in Edgartown, which was renamed the movie Amelland for the movie, established the Hollywood culture when it was released in the summer of 1975, put the new box office records and won three awards in the Oscars. The film will be views of the ocean for decades to come.
Director Stephen Spielberg and author Peter Pencheli expressed his regret that the viewers of the film became very afraid of sharks, and both of them later contributed to the preservation efforts with the decrease in their population, due to a large extent to commercial hunting.
Day after day, Bug entered the waters of the cold island, which wears only trunks, hat and glasses, and always for the wrong weather when 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain were thrown into parts of New England, and the streets are extended to Martha farms.
Bug’s endeavor also coincides with the first confirmed vision from New England Aquarium this season from a white shark, off the nearby Nantukte island. Only in the event that safety employees are accompanied by the kayak boat and boats, its argument uses the “Shark Shield” to create a low -density electric field in water to deter shark without damaging them.
