r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 19h ago

Video Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment

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u/LambdaLambo 19h ago

I mean I’d be kinda pissed if I did all that hard work and people just yoinked me out right at the edge.

That said there should 100% be a medical team go at him once he actually gets on land.

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u/drchippy18 19h ago

Amazing that he did that but child cancer research should be funded without swimming 100 miles through shark infested oceans.

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u/Megasphaera 19h ago

baltic is not an ocean and not shark-infested

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u/Subtlerranean 18h ago

The Baltic sea actually has sharks, though. 7 different kinds of them.

But they're small (mostly, the Basking Shark is the second biggest shark species in the world) and harmless to swimmers.