Daredevil to swim length of Amazon

Guess this guy is going to brave pirrahnas, crocs, posionious snakes, needle fish, etc...... and swim the entire length of the amazon "or die trying".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16722240/?GT1=8921

But the best quote is at the end of the article:

“As a young boy I was beaten a lot by my parents and schoolmasters. This no doubt contributed greatly to my ability to ignore pain and endure,” he says on his Web site.

So start beating your kids, and they'll go far

The title of the thread had me picturing Ben Affleck being savaged by a huge gator...

:insertpicofjlo:

Steve One wrote: The title of the thread had me picturing Ben Affleck being savaged by a huge gator...

:insertpicofjlo:

Afflick will of had to have been able to breath through his ears if J-LO sat that big wibbler down on his mush..He would piss a little Amazon swim after that..

Here's one of the dangers he's facing:

Candiru:

"It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine or blood, and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the anus or vagina, or even in the case of smaller specimens the penis—and deep into the urethra). It then erects its spine and begins to feed on the blood and body tissue just as it would from the gills of a fish. The candiru is then almost impossible to remove except through surgery. As the fish locates its host by following the water flow from the gills to its source, urinating while bathing increases the chance of a candiru honing in on a human urethra."

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: Here's one of the dangers he's facing:

Candiru:

"It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine or blood, and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the anus or vagina, or even in the case of smaller specimens the penis—and deep into the urethra). It then erects its spine and begins to feed on the blood and body tissue just as it would from the gills of a fish. The candiru is then almost impossible to remove except through surgery. As the fish locates its host by following the water flow from the gills to its source, urinating while bathing increases the chance of a candiru honing in on a human urethra."

Looks like a piece of piss.

Fish Food.

Surely the top couple of miles of the amazon are only about 2 inches deep....not EXACTLY swimmable.

anoither media bullshit then.

How I wish it was David Blaine.

I wouldn't put my toe in, never mind swim it.

The very thought :shudder:

good luck.

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: Here's one of the dangers he's facing:

Candiru:

"It is feared by the natives because it is attracted to urine or blood, and if the bather is nude it will swim into an orifice (the anus or vagina, or even in the case of smaller specimens the penis—and deep into the urethra). It then erects its spine and begins to feed on the blood and body tissue just as it would from the gills of a fish. The candiru is then almost impossible to remove except through surgery. As the fish locates its host by following the water flow from the gills to its source, urinating while bathing increases the chance of a candiru honing in on a human urethra."

Yeah, I know. I learned it in biology class when we were studying about fish.