Mumbai: The sixteen-year-old junior student from Mulund, Hazel Raikundalia, swam with a sea route 14 km from the Elephanta cave to the Gateway of India on Sunday, which also occurs on children’s day, in 2 hours and 45 minutes to spread.
Awareness of the need for a sea cleaner for the environment.
A recent country-level swimming champion fain from SMT Sulochanadevi Singhania School in Thane, Hazel was detained by Mulund Mla Mihir Kotecha when he came out of the water at the gateway.
His coach, Umesh Uttekar, praised his first effort in a long distance swim.
Talking to Toi, Hazel said: ‘I want to swim from Elephanta to the gateway because I really feel about the bad conditions about our sea and our sea.
Lots of plastic trash, industrial waste polluting and domestic mud every day is thrown into the ocean, which is not good for the environment.
Even when I swim today, I have to be careful to avoid floating plastic bottles, used paper, carton cartons, and other general trash.
This is very unfortunate.
“I know a lot of swimmers who avoid swimming in the open sea because there are lots of dirt and pollution seen in it.
Don’t let our oceans become a dump yard.
” His father who is proud, Mitesh Raikundalia, commented:` `Hazel wants to swim across the English channel legendary in the next two years, which is why it is important to swim first locally.
Mumbai beach.
However, the dirty condition of the Arab Sea canceled many people to stay away.
I am happy for my daughter because it has the will and dedication to drop long distances.
“Coach Uttekar Added that the recent locking phase during a rather tough pandemic on Hazel because he could not access the pool at that time.
However, as soon as things started to increase, he began a strict training in the pool before making his debut into the sea.
He was accompanied by a pilot boat consisting of observers, time guards, coaches and family members.
Every TA Hun, we lowered more than 180 million tons of toxic waste into the sea.
About 8 million metric tons of plastic waste (which is equivalent to 57,000 blue whales) also discharged every year to the ocean.
This is also clearly a disaster for sea biodiversity.