The Big Swim

I came across a very interesting and unusual fundraising event. The fundraising event called "the big swim" includes 56 participants that have decided to swim 26 miles across the Santa Barbaba Channel. The big swim was the idea of Emilio Casanueva, founder of the "Ocean Ducks". Members of the Ocean Ducks include both men and women from the ages of twelve to sixty aiming to help clean up the oceans. Once the idea of swimming across the channel was official, they teamed up with CEC (community enviorment council). CEC is a non-profit organization and were more than happy to be apart of the big swim. With the help of CEC the money raised by the Ocean Ducks was able to go to various research and organizations that are trying to make a difference in the worlds oceans today.
The big swim ran very smoothly without any shark attacks, which seemed to be a great concern for many of the participants.
Here is the link to the video of the big swim with includes footage of the participants swimming as well as their reactions to taking on such a crazy challenge.
http://www.ocean.com/mplayer/index.asp?resourceid=5119&page=0&channelid=49&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eocean%2Ecom%2Ffilm2%2Easp%3Fresourceid%3D5119