In 2015, a British swimmer entered Antarctica's freezing sea wearing only swimming trunks. His campaign helped protect 1.55 million square kilometres

In February 2015, British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh entered the freezing waters of Antarctica's Ross Sea wearing nothing but a pair of swimming trunks, completing a series of five short but record breaking swims in temperatures as low as minus 1.7 degrees Celsius. The swims were not simply a personal endurance challenge.

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