A quadruple amputee has successfully swum across the strait of Gibraltar to Morocco as part of an effort to swim between all the world's continents.

Philippe Croizon celebrates completing his five-hour swim across the Straits of Gibraltar. Photograph: El Yaakoubi Aziz/AP

 

Philippe Croizon, who lost his arms and legs in an electrical accident,has already swum the Channel as well as between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and between Asia and Africa in the Gulf of Aqaba.

Croizon swims with the aid of prosthetic flippers attached to his leg stumps and a snorkel to breathe through. He made the nine-mile crossing from Tarifa, Spain, in just over five hours with a friend.

Croizon said upon his arrival near the city of Tangier on Thursday that he was trying to link the continents of the world with his swimming to show "we are all together".

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