Frenchman without limbs

French swimmer, who as a result of electric shock were amputated arms and legs, completed the voyage from related five kontinentov.

Using fins attached to the prosthesis, Philip Kruazon swam the icy waters of the Bering Strait between the American island of Little Diomede and his Russian twin Great Diomede, thus symbolically connecting Asia and Ameriku.

The last three months he sailed from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, linking Oceania and Asia, crossed the Red Sea, thus linking Africa and Asia, as well as the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Europe from Afriki.

Doctors amputated Philip Kruazonu both arms and legs after an accident in 1994. Philip electric shock when he repaired the antenna on the roof of his house: high-voltage cable brushed metal ladder on which Philip stood.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/russian/rolling_news/2012/08/120818_rn_limbless_swimmer.shtml