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One-Armed Diver Converts Croc Attack Into 1M Bottle Cleanup

5/18/2026

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Alain Brandeleer, a Belgian diver, survived a crocodile attack in Botswana’s Okavango Delta on 6 September 2012 that cost him his right arm.
He returned to the water six months later, then swam the Strait of Gibraltar in 2015 and Ibiza-Formentera in 2025, raising €24,000 to intercept 500,000 plastic bottles.
He later organized a 20-kilometre Brussels race with 250 participants to fund the removal of one million plastic bottles.

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Story summary

Alain Brandeleer, a Belgian diver, survived a crocodile attack in Botswana’s Okavango Delta on 6 September 2012 that cost him his right arm.
He returned to the water six months later, then swam the Strait of Gibraltar in 2015 and Ibiza-Formentera in 2025, raising €24,000 to intercept 500,000 plastic bottles.
He later organized a 20-kilometre Brussels race with 250 participants to fund the removal of one million plastic bottles.