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Adam Walker is not your everyday record-breaking sportsman. He took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet - to swim non-stop across seven of the worlds deadliest oceans wearing only swim trunks- cap and goggles. It is not a test for the faint-hearted: swimmers face freezing temperatures- huge swells and treacherous currents- potentially deadly marine life (from sharks to Portuguese men o war)- vomiting and burning off a weeks calories in a single swim. In 2007- Adam- then a toaster salesman- saw a film about a man attempting to swim the English Channel and change his life in doing so. Inspired by this- he decided to try to emulate the feat. After a year of rigorous training without a coach - his first open-water swim was in 9 degrees and he nearly died from hypothermia - Adam achieved his goal in 11 hours 35 minutes- despite a ruptured bicep tendon leading to medical advice to give up long-distance swimming. In 2011- after two operations and a change to his swimming style to take pressure off his injured shoulder- he became the first Briton to achieve a two-way crossing from Spain to Morocco and back. In the process- he broke the British record one way.Shortly afterwards- the Oceans Seven challenge was born- a gruelling equivalent to the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. At first it seemed that injury would prevent Adam from participating but- ignoring medical advice- he developed an innovative technique - the Ocean Walker stroke - that would enable him to continue with the ultimate aim of completing this seemingly impossible feat. Whether man wou...