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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

2 years

I got older, and the world got warmer. I swam at Nigard Glacier 15 years ago. Just look at it today.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: Penguins taking back control in Cape Town. 🐧😃

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Lewis Pugh

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7 years

One of these contains plastic bags, the other contains jellyfish. Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

We need to take a step back and realize just what we are doing to the animal kingdom.

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

I’ve just touched Dover harbour wall. That’s the end. 530kms in 49 days. I’ve done my bit, now it’s time for Government to do theirs. #TheLongSwim

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

"It's only one plastic bottle", said 8 billion people. [📷 Ben Curtis]

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

Correct hand-washing technique. Please share.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

I can hardly believe what I have just experienced, swimming in a river UNDER the Antarctic ice sheet. Every shade of blue imaginable - it was utterly magnificent, and absolutely terrifying. Antarctica is melting. #Antarctica2020

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

I’ve just swum the full length of the English Channel. This is my message. Please share. 1/7

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

On the final approach to Dover!

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

There are no "shark infested" waters. The sea belongs to them.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

1 year

Below are the two most important metrics of our time. Top: the decline of biodiversity between 1970-2018. Below: global temperatures between 1850-2022.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

I’ve rounded Dungeness! THIRD time lucky. It’s now a 26km swim to the end in Dover! #TheLongSwim

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

I’ve finally reached the white cliffs of Dover! Please join me on Shakespeare Beach at 13.30 tomorrow as I complete the last 4km 🎉

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

8 months

I’ve completed the #HudsonSwim2023 ! 315 miles from source to sea. People have fought for 50 years to get this river clean. And today she is beautiful. I will never forget the wildlife. The bald eagles, the vultures, the beavers and black bears. So this is my message 🏊‍♂️👇🏞️ The…

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Lewis Pugh

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1 year

Huge announcement from the Egyptian Government! 2,000km of Red Sea coral reefs will be protected in a new Marine Protected Area - the Great Fringing Reef MPA. These reefs are #biodiversity hotspots, critical for ocean health. I am beyond happy!🐬🐠🪸 #COP27Egypt

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

50 days of swimming the English Channel, and the most surprising thing is what I have NOT seen. Why are more people not talking about this?

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

7 years

I've received lots of questions about how I’m able to swim in the Arctic. Read this thread >

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

The SA Aghulas II has arrived at the Antarctic ice shelf. What a sight! 🧊🚢 🇿🇦 [Pic via Stiaan Kotze]

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

11 months

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 After intense negotiations, the @UN has adopted the world's first international treaty to protect the #HighSeas . This is great news for the oceans and everything that lives in them. It’s also great news for you 👇📰

Beyond borders: Why new 'high seas' treaty is critical for the world

The UN’s 193 Member States adopted a landmark legally binding marine biodiversity agreement on Monday following nearly two decades of fierce negotiations over forging a common wave of conservation...

news.un.org

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

What a sight to behold. Two blue whales breaching in total synchrony. Incredible! 🐋💙🐋

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

BREAKING NEWS: Today the UK has decided to forge ahead with our call to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. It’s an historic moment. 1/8

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

1 year

Water is essential for life on Earth. Our rivers should be drinkable, fishable and swimmable. It is that simple. My letter to @thetimes today 💧🤮👇

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

2 years

This saddens me so much. It was more convenient to kill a walrus in her natural environment than to enforce a “recommendation” that people do not get too close to her. We do not own the oceans. They are not our home. 🦭

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

2 years

Walrus Freya who became attraction in Norway's Oslo Fjord put down

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

Goodness me. 😥

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

East Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and yet I was able to swim down a river under the ice-sheet. It was the most beautiful and terrifying experience of my life, and comes with an important message for us all. Please share. #Antarctica2020

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

1 year

What on earth are we doing? This will all end up in our Ocean. 🎥: Tom Jackson

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: Gibraltar is set to become the first country to declare a Climate Emergency. In our fight to save the planet, it needn't be the biggest who leads. Bravo Gibraltar!

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6 years

In 1920 there were 1 million pairs of African penguins. Now there are just 26,000. A change in the distribution and quantity of fish, caused by overfishing and climate change, have devastated their numbers. Today they are on the brink of extinction. #PenguinAwarenessDay

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

Whenever I see a blue whale I am astounded by just how big they are! #WorldWhaleDay

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

Happy #WorldOceansDay ! A day to celebrate the magnificence of life in our oceans and our responsibility to protect it.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

Imagine lying on a beach and a komodo dragon walks out the sea ... with a turtle on its head! 🐢🦎😰

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

My mother, Margery Pugh, passed away quietly yesterday. She was the kindest person I ever knew.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

I swam here in East Antarctica to bring you this message: Having witnessed the rapid melting in this region, I have no doubt that we are now facing a climate emergency. At #COP26 , world leaders need to step up or step aside. Time is running out. Please share. #Antarctica2020

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

Huge congratulations to Dr Otto Thaning who has just completed a Robben Island swim at 80 years old!!! 2 hours 52 minutes. 🏆🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

5 years

Extraordinary, amazing, super-human!!! Just when we think we’ve reached the limit of human endurance, someone shatters the records. Huge congratulations to Sarah Thomas on swimming the English Channel 4x continuously!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏊‍♀️🇫🇷 🏊‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏊‍♀️🇫🇷🏊‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

9 months

All rivers should be drinkable, fishable and swimmable. It is really that simple 💧🏞️ #HudsonSwim2023 #RiversAreLife

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

1 year

A family of orcas off the Lofoten islands in Norway. A spectacular photograph from Cristina Mittermeier.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

So baby swordfish are born with a TINY sword. Have a good day. 💙

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

I swam in East Antarctica to demonstrate how it is changing. Argentinian scientists have just logged a record air temperature of 18.3°C on the Antarctic Peninsula. We need urgent and ambitious action to tackle this climate crisis! #Antarctica2020

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

8 years

I've never seen anything like this. Tomorrow we'll start cleaning, and will not stop until this beach is clean.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

9 years

On #EarthDay let's celebrate our oceans - home to nearly 1/2 the world's known species. Please RT. http://t.co/OOuQXMyMKp

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

What a magnificent sight! 🐧🐧🐧

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

2 years

Today is World Oceans Day. Take a deep breath and join me underwater for a moment, surrounded by beautiful coral and fish. And then ask yourself the most important question of all... #WorldOceansDay

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Lewis Pugh

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1 year

Our world is fading from green to grey. The Biodiversity Stripes show a 69% decline in over 5,000 species of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles since 1970. #BiodiversityDay

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

5 years

GREAT NEWS for our precious ocean wildlife! England has today created 41 new marine conservation zones. 🦀🐠🐬 Thread👇

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

GREAT NEWS! 75 countries have now committed to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030. We're getting there. #30x30 🇦🇴🇦🇲🇦🇺🇧🇪🇧🇿🇧🇯🇧🇼🇨🇻🇰🇭🇨🇦🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇮🇭🇷🇨🇿🇩🇰🇩🇴🇨🇩🇪🇨🇪🇹🇫🇲🇫🇯🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇦🇩🇪🇬🇭🇬🇷🇬🇩🇬🇹🇬🇼🇭🇳🇮🇩🇮🇪🇮🇹🇯🇲🇯🇵🇯🇴🇰🇪🇱🇺🇲🇻🇲🇭🇲🇷🇲🇽🇲🇨🇲🇳🇲🇿🇳🇦🇳🇱🇳🇮🇳🇬🇳🇴🇵🇰🇵🇼🇵🇦🇵🇪🇵🇹🇨🇬🇷🇴🇷🇼🇸🇳🇸🇨🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇸🇰🇳🇸🇪🇨🇭🇹🇬🇦🇪🇺🇬🇬🇧🇺🇸🇻🇺

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

This is the Greenland ice sheet melting. It is an existential threat to life on Earth. #ClimateSwim

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

I am absolutely exhausted. But I will not quit. I’m going to make one more attempt to round Dungeness today. #TheLongSwim

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

8 ways to reduce your single-use plastic in 2018. Please share.

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

The temptation to quit will be strongest shortly after you've begun, and just before you finish. If you're aware of it, you can avoid it.

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

I’ve crossed the start line. There’s a long way to go to end plastic pollution. #TheLongSwim

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

3 years

A pod of dolphins swimming past Cape Town. What a joyful sight! 🐬

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

We are off the streets and look who’s back! Please share. 🐺🐸🐯🐢🐻🐗🐑🐘🐏🐧

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

I expect to finish my swim along the length of the English Channel at Shakespeare Beach in Dover at 1:30pm on Wednesday. Everyone welcome! #TheLongSwim

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Lewis Pugh

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7 years

Today, as the Larsen C ice shelf split from Antarctica, I swam in the High Arctic. Water was 10°C. Twelve years ago it was 3°. #ArcticDecade

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

4 years

A view of my final training swim before I attempt the main swim. This spectacular beauty defies a darker reality - this river is the result of the melting ice-sheet in East Antarctica. It’s time for urgent action on the climate crisis. #Antarctica2020

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

2 years

There is no #EarthDay without the Ocean. It covers more than 70% of our planet and is home to over a million of Earth's plants and animals 🐋🌿🌍 #30x30 📸: Fabrice Guerin

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Lewis Pugh

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3 years

ANNOUNCEMENT: In two weeks I will attempt the toughest swim of my life across Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord. There is no better place in the world to show the dramatic impact of the Climate Crisis. This is ground zero. 🏊‍♂️🇬🇱🧊 #ClimateSwim

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Lewis Pugh

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2 years

I’ve completed the #CoralSwim ! 🪸 123 km. 16 days. 2 continents. 1 message: Coral reefs are vital, spectacular ecosystems that support a quarter of ocean life. Climate change is destroying them. At #COP27 we need urgent action to prevent any further loss. Please share.

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Lewis Pugh

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11 months

A different view of Earth. The sheer size of the Pacific Ocean is incredible.

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Lewis Pugh

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1 year

"Only 6% of English rivers will be in good ecological condition by 2027." Painful to read... We must get a grip on this issue - quickly. #CleanItUp

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Lewis Pugh

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3 months

This stunning image by amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani just won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. What an incredible shot 📸🐻‍❄️💙

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Lewis Pugh

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1 year

Somewhere in the deep blue waters off Britain, might be a Greenland shark that has witnessed the reign of 23 monarchs! Living up to 500 years, this magnificent creature may have been alive at the same time as Henry VIII (1509-1547) 👑🦈 #LongLiveTheShark 📷: Nick Caloyianis

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Lewis Pugh

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3 years

To swim past icebergs is to swim through history. All you can hear is bubbling - the sound of air being released from the ice; air that was trapped there thousands of years ago. #ClimateSwim

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Lewis Pugh

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3 years

A surfing whale! 🌊🐋 Happy Friday 💙

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Lewis Pugh

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10 months

Imagine the future we'll face if we keep kicking the climate can down the road.

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Lewis Pugh

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5 years

BREAKING NEWS: I'm delighted to hear that the UK has heeded our call to fully protect the waters around Ascension Island, a jewel in the Atlantic Ocean. Protecting 30% of the world's oceans need not be a dream. THREAD👇

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Lewis Pugh

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4 years

Happy #WorldPenguinDay ! A day to celebrate the most magnificent triathletes on the planet. Who else can waddle, swim and fly!? 🐧💕

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1 year

There are 18 known species of penguin. My favourite is the Northern Rockhopper. Which is yours? 🐧💕🤔 #PenguinAwarenessDay

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3 years

BREAKING NEWS: Delighted that Tristan da Cunha has announced full protection for more than 90% of its waters! The area protected is huge - nearly triple the size of the UK. Home to penguins, albatrosses, seals, whales and many incredible animals. 🐧🦑🐳

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Lewis Pugh

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5 years

There is no commercial, cultural or scientific justification for slaughtering whales.

Opinion | Japan: Stop Slaughtering Whales (Published 2018)

There is no commercial, cultural or scientific justification for killing these magnificent creatures.

www.nytimes.com

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Lewis Pugh

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5 years

I urge Sri Lanka to move their shipping lane out of the blue whales’ feeding ground. It requires a small deviation and will save the lives of these magnificent endangered animals. (Editorial from Times of London) 🐳

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

There are better ways to show your love than with a plastic balloon.

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1 year

Incredible. This young polar bear knows instinctively to lower its centre of gravity to cross the thin ice 🐻‍❄️🧊

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7 years

All our oceans should look like this! What a glorious sight - gannets feeding off Shetland Islands. [📷 Hugh Harrop]

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

Thank you to everyone who came to Dover yesterday!! I could not have imagined a more wonderful welcome. Never has the health of our oceans been so important. #TheLongSwim

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5 years

EU bans single-use plastic products such as the straws, cutlery and cotton buds that are clogging the world's oceans, starting in 2021.

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

Here are eight things you can do to help protect and clean up our oceans – please share! (1/9)

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

Industrial fishing is devastating our oceans around Britain. I’ve been amazed at how little wildlife there is left. The government needs to step in now.

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

I’m so happy that my wife, Antoinette, has come to support me. My family’s sacrifice over the past year has been considerable and I’m so happy to be able to share these final moments with her.

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3 years

This is the only place dolphins belong. In the wild. I urge @Expedia to stop selling tickets to captive dolphin entertainment. #NoTanksExpedia

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10 months

Polar bear joy - unbridled and pure 💙🐻‍❄️

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

I’ve now swum the length of the English Channel. 528kms. 49 gruelling days. And I'm still absolutely determined to keep fighting for our oceans. Sky News will feature a 1 hour documentary #TheLongSwim today at 11am and 4pm (UK time). Do please watch.

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

Today started with an icy swim here in Antarctica, and later I will be talking about climate change with world leaders live in Bonn. #COP23 [Video credit - Michael Booth / UN Environment]

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein

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3 years

By the end of Day 1, I hoped to have swam much further. In the morning I covered just 480m in 10 minutes. In the afternoon, 549m in the same time. But strong currents between the icebergs and 0°C water slowed me down. Tomorrow is another day. #ClimateSwim

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Lewis Pugh

@LewisPugh

6 years

A really big thank you to @RoyalNavy for their encouragement on my last 50km to Dover. A hot shower and a curry was just what I needed!

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Lewis Pugh

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6 years

When you swim past an iceberg all you can hear is bubbling. It's just like the sound of Rice Krispies in milk. Snap, crackle, pop. It's the sound of tiny air bubbles being released from the ice; air that was trapped there thousands of years ago. #Antarctica2020

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Lewis Pugh

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5 years

It’s been 1 year since I swam the length of the English Channel to protest against the under-protection of UK waters. The turnaround has been remarkable. It’s fair to say that the UK now leads the world in ocean protection. 🐟🦀🐬👇

I swam the length of the English Channel to highlight threats to the ocean – now the UK leads in...

There is an old saying in English Channel swimming that most crossings are won or lost before the first stroke is taken.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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1 year

One of these contains plastic bags, the other contains jellyfish. Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

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6 years

After 50 days at sea - the best welcome home from Nanu! 🐕

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6 years

A big thank you to the British media who have been so generous with their coverage of my campaign to protect our oceans. #TheLongSwim

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6 years

If someone says you can’t achieve your dream, don’t waste good time arguing. Just dive in and do it.

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8 months

This is an astonishing decision given what is happening in Libya, Greece, China, Hawaii, Canada... the list goes on. What we need now is leadership. This isn't it.

Sunak delays crucial UK climate targets, with one eye on the next election | CNN

Britain will delay a series of key climate targets, its beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday at a hastily organized press conference, in a move that angered businesses and political...

www.cnn.com

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Lewis Pugh

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3 years

Renowned shark photographer Chris Fallows has spent years in close proximity with sharks. But he hasn't seen a Great White in False Bay since 2018. "These animals have been around for hundreds of thousands of years – it's an environmental crime."

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6 years

Today was a disaster, but I refuse to give up 37km from the end.

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4 years

Swimming under the Antarctic ice sheet is the most beautiful and terrifying swim I’ve ever done. Every shade of blue, and then nearly complete darkness. Mid-way I heard an almighty boom above me, and thought my time had come. Luckily, it was just the ice shifting. #Antarctica2020

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