Lewis Pugh has officially completed The Shark Swim, a 59-mile journey around the island of Martha’s Vineyard.

The swim was gruelling. Over 12 days, Lewis and the team faced physically demanding conditions: icy waters, strong currents, and intense headwinds. At one point, they weren’t sure they would make it. But twilight-timed swims (never a comfortable proposition when you’re swimming in shark territory) and double swim sessions made all the difference.

We’re over halfway through The Shark Swim! Over a week ago, Lewis Pugh began a 60-mile swim around the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, where scenes from Jaws were filmed, to highlight the critical importance of sharks in our ocean ecosystems and the urgent need to protect them.

We’ve just launched our latest campaign! The Shark Swim highlights the critical importance of sharks in our ocean ecosystems, and the urgent need to protect them.

Our latest Champion Series is out! This time it’s all about sharks and the people and teams working hard to celebrate and protect them.

Change is a strange inevitability. It can creep in like a rising tide or sweep us away like a tsunami. Sometimes we celebrate it – in awards and accolades and history books. At other times, we fear it and fight it. But it will come, and when it does it leaves its mark.

If the history of life on Earth were condensed into a single calendar year, humans wouldn’t arrive until 11:35 pm on 31st December. We are new here, visitors in a place that existed for over 4.5 billion years before us and will continue long after we’re gone. But in our brief time on this planet, we have left a mark that the ocean, let alone nature, won’t be able to forget.

If there’s one thing nature can teach us, it’s resilience. City birds refuse to have their voices drowned out, and modify their songs to cut through human noise. Heat-resistant corals in the Red Sea defy the odds stacked against them by withstanding rising temperatures. Atlantic killifish survive where few others can by evolving to tolerate toxic pollution. Like the words made famous in Jurassic Park, ‘Life finds a way’.