South African endurance swimmer Sarah Ferguson draws attention to plastic pollution as the first person to swim around Easter Island.
Plastic Oceans International and Breathe Conservation, two global nonprofit organizations dedicated to solving the plastic pollution problem, announced that South African endurance swimmer Sarah Ferguson set a new world record—becoming the first person to swim around the entire perimeter of Easter Island—as part of Swim Against Plastic, a global campaign to help end plastic pollution.
Ferguson achieved the world-record swim around Easter Island on Saturday, March 16. She swam 39.46 miles (63.5 kilometers) continuously over a duration of 19 hours and 8 minutes, finishing ahead of schedule in a swim expected to take approximately 24 hours to complete. She began swimming on March 15 at 8:07 a.m. EASST, officially launching the Swim Against Plastic campaign.