Watch environment activist, Lindsey Cole swim the UK’s Bristol Channel dressed as a mermaid to protest against the pollution of British waterways
is an environment activist and children’s author who recently swam the UK’s Bristol channel, from Penarth in Wales to Clevedon in England, dressed as a mermaid accompanied by a giant, inflatable poo.
Her feat was part of a campaign against the pollution of British waterways. “The health of the rivers in Britain has been in decline over the last decade or more,” she says, partly due to reduced funding for UK government environmental enforcement agencies. “There’s literally no boots on the ground to investigate or prosecute polluters.”a group of swimmers and local residents applying for bathing status for a segment of the river Avon, whose waters end up in the Bristol channel.
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