This is fascinating event. And unmentioned here so far. A guy in the UK
has started a massive swimming based event to raise money and awareness
about malaria. It takes place Dec 3. So far he has 250,00 projected
swimmers right around the world. HIs goal was a million. He's put the
swim togther almost without publicity or media attention. There is more
comment and information here;
http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/25/1420892.html
And the World Swim for Malaria site is here;
http://worldswimformalaria.com/en/Homepage.aspx