Yes, there is a lot of water in the Amazon River basin, but it’s no longer safe to drink. The filter and bucket system is placed in individual homes and can provide daily clean water with minimum effort or use of resources, like burning wood to boil water, for instance.

The Amazon rainforest spreads across nine countries namely Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana, and French Guiana….Countries Sharing The Amazon Rainforest.

While it covers 2.6 million square miles across nine countries — Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana — about 60 percent of the Amazon Basin is in Brazil, where Greenpeace has focused its efforts.

The Amazon River is located in the northern portion of South America, flowing from west to east. The river system originates in the Andes Mountains of Peru and travels through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.

2. The Amazon River System meanders through nine South America countries. After starting its seemingly slow and subtle voyage in the highlands of Peru, the Amazon River traverses through Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela before entering Brazil and flowing out of its Atlantic coast.

There are guided tours on the Amazon to see things like the Amazon River Dolphin, some of which apparently will let people swim with them. Based on this, it’s probably safe to swim in those areas, but like any river with wild-life there are no guarantees. If you are worried about wildlife, not very dangerous.

It may surprise you to learn that there are sharks lurking in the murky waters of the Amazon River. And not just any shark for that matter. The Amazon region is home to what scientists consider to be the most dangerous shark in the world – the mighty bull shark.

Sickness. Tourists are especially prone to sickness while traveling in the Amazon rainforest. According to Goparoo Travel Guide, the biggest threat comes from mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. These are both serious illnesses, so get the appropriate vaccinations before you go to the Amazon.

The Zambezi

According to local lore, the Strid has a 100 per cent fatality rate when it comes to those who have fallen in while trying to jump between the moss-covered slippery banks. They had set off for a walk near the Wharfe at Bolton Abbey and were never seen alive again.

10 Most Dangerous Places In The World

• Death Valley – Most Extreme Place On Earth.
• Skeleton Coast – Harsh Climate.
• Danakil Desert – A Volcanically Active Area.
• Gates Of Hell – Door To Hell.
• North Sentinel Island – Forbidden, Dangerous And Mysterious Place.
• Madidi National Park – A Jungle Paradise.

Unsurprisingly, the Amazon River features on this list of the world’s most dangerous rivers. It is usually considered to be the second-largest river in the world after the Nile River, but when one accounts for volume, it is the largest by far.

The Nile River is the life blood of Egypt. It is the longest river in the world, flowing over 6,600 kilometres throughout Africa. We loved travelling along the Nile but would not recommend swimming in it (like we did) or you may get infected with a parasite called schistosomiasis.

Slovenian marathon swimmer Martin Strel became the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon River Saturday when he arrived in Belem, Brazil. Strel, 52, swam 5,265 kilometers (3,272 miles) in 66 days. Over the course of the swim Strel battled delirium, exhaustion, and infected sores on his legs.

I’ve swam about 850 miles of the Nile, from near Alexandria and the Mediterranean to Sudan. It’s in my head now, believe me. It’s possible.

Martin Strel

139.8 miles

Sarah Thomas, an American ultramarathon swimmer, has just completed a swim that no other human on the planet has ever accomplished. The 37-year-old from Colorado plunged into waters off the shore of Dover, England, in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Her goal: swim across the English Channel. Then do it again.

It is nearly 4000 km from Los Angeles to Hawaii and 3800 km from San Francisco to Hawaii. Let’s take an average of 3900 km. Using the formula from Veljko Rogosic 50 hours for 236 km, we can extrapolate that it would take at least 826 hours or ~34 days for a swimmer at least equal to Veljko.

It will take him five to eight months to cross the Atlantic Ocean (something that takes the average flier about six hours), stopping each night to rest and restarting each day from the exact GPS point where he ended.

Benoit Lecomte (born 1967) is a French-born long-distance swimmer (now a naturalized American citizen) who claimed to be the first man to complete a non-contiguous stage swim across the Atlantic Ocean without a kick board in 1998….Benoît Lecomte.

Assuming you’re in warm waters and wearing a wetsuit and life vest, you could potentially survive for as many as three to five days, at which point you’ll most likely succumb to dehydration.

The Atlantic Ocean ranks the second in the catalogue of the most dangerous ocean waters in the world. This ocean water is usually affected by coastal winds, temperature of the water surface and the water currents. The ocean water currents have an extremely unpredictable characteristic.

Pugh is best known for undertaking the first swim across the North Pole in 2007 to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice. In 2016 he played a pivotal role in creating the largest marine reserve in the world in the Ross Sea off Antarctica.

Even in mild weather, there can be dangerous currents here – therefore never go swimming with beach toys, air mattresses, rubber boats, and the like. The currents will easily bring them out to sea. Never go out further than when the water reaches your waist and always swim along the shore.

In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she became the first person claiming to have swum from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage, swimming from Havana to Key West (110 mi or 177 km) although this has not been formally ratified by any recognised swim body.

A British explorer has braved sub-zero temperatures to become the first person to swim at the North Pole. It took him 18 minutes and 50 seconds to swim 0.6 miles in waters created by melted sea ice at temperatures of 29°F — the coldest a human has swum in. …

70F(21C) Water feels quite cold to most people. Treat any water temperature below 70F (21C) with caution. 40F(4.4C) or lower Water is painfully cold.

On 14 December, Pugh swam a kilometre in the seas off the Antarctic Peninsula at a latitude of 65º South, some of the world’s coldest waters, where the sea’s saltiness allows temperatures to dip to just below 0 ºC without freezing.

– enough, you can join the Antarctic Swimmers Club with a brisk but brief plunge in the Antarctic Ocean. Although no landing site can be absolutely guaranteed in this stunning, but remote, location as weather conditions can change quickly, many Antarctic cruise ships do land on the shores of Deception Island.