BRUSSELS - Limbless adventurer Philippe Croizon became the world’s first quadruple amputee Thursday to complete a 33-metre (100-foot) dive to the bottom of the world’s deepest swimming-pool in the Belgian capital. “It was huge, an intense moment of happiness,” the Frenchman ...
PARIS (AFP) - A Frenchman who gained fame for swimming the English Channel with no arms or legs has set himself a new challenge: to cross five continents in waters marked by sharks, poisonous jellyfish, icy currents and cargo ships. Philippe Croizon, 43, who lost both his arms and legs in an ...






