The Unsinkable Mary Margaret Revell

Mary Margaret Revell is someone whose life has been a story the likes of which you've never heard before. Disney wanted to make a movie about her, and with good reason. She swam across the nine-mile Strait of Gibraltar finishing in seven hours, 13 minutes, and becoming only the second woman to accomplish this feat. She made several attempts to swim across the English Channel before swimming across the 14 mile Sea of Galilee in Israel.

She was the first woman to swim the 16 mile Straits of Mackinac in upper Michigan, and the first woman, and first American, to swim the double crossing of the Straits of Messina.

She also worked for the Pentagon as special assistant for the environment and help direct the Navy's first environmental and conservation office. She wrote children's books and newspaper articles; raised sea otters; founded a company that made swimwear and sporting gear; became an acclaimed historian; and took the lead in establishing her great passion, the Maryland Museum of Women's History.

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