Swim Facts

The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.

There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.

Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.

Sloths can swim three times faster than they can move on land. They can also hold their breath for up to 40 seconds underwater.

In 1967, Australia's Prime Minister, Harold Holt, decided to go swimming one day and was never seen again.

Clint Eastwood was in a plane that crashed into the sea in 1951. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam nearly 3 miles through frigid waters to reach the California coast.

The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.

The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.