<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A 7 year-old boy Monday swam the notorious crossing from the former prison island of Alcatraz to the San Francisco shoreline. Braxton Bilbrey from Phoenix, Arizona, completed the more than 2- kilometre crossing in about one hour and 15 minutes to enter the record books as the youngest person ever to manage the treacherous swim. 'I think it's pretty cool,' he told reporters as he stepped dripping out of the 15-degree water. Asked what he would do next, he said: 'I don't know. Swim the English Channel.' The Alcatraz swim is part of US folklore as its swirling currents claimed the lives of numerous criminals who tried to escape the facility, which was one of America's most secure prisons until it was closed in 1963. Alcatraz draws about 1.5 million visitors a year, making it one of America's top tourist attractions. </div> link: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northam...s_Alcatraz_swim woo hoo!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Martin:</div><div class="quote_post">Ain't there sharks in those waters?</div> He was in the bay, not in the ocean. Highly unlikely that a shark (at least a shark that would eat a human) would be in there but I guess its possible.
