News - Martin Strel
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet Green announced today the addition of five exceptional titles to Reel Impact, its new weekly documentary strand set to launch in September.
By Jessica Marcy jessica.marcy@roanoke.com 981-3340 Dr. Mateja de Leonni Stanonik believed she would die within minutes. "I came here to save lives and I can't die," she kept thinking as she went into anaphylactic shock in the Amazon.
Dr. Mateja de Leonni Stanonik believed she would die within minutes. "I came here to save lives and I can't die," she kept thinking as she went into anaphylactic shock in the Amazon.
ADVENTURER Martin Strel has defied crocodiles and piranhas to swim the 3272-mile length of the Amazon River. Martin, known as The Fishman, averaged an amazing 50 miles a day on his 65-day swim. The Slovenian ignored doctors' orders to stop as he fell ill during the epic journey.
After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance - something he's already done three times before.
