Jim "The Shark" Dreyer
Let "The Shark" stir up the waters at your organization's next conference.
Jim "The Shark" Dreyer was designated a "Superhuman" with his appearance on the History Channel's popular TV series, Stan Lee's Superhumans. The segment, entitled "The Human Tugboat," featured Jim successfully towing a 27-ton car ferry while swimming across Newport Beach Harbor, in an astounding aquatic feat of strength. Jim Dreyer now has set 19 world records, and has been called the "next Jack LaLanne."
Jim's TV series debut came on the heels of pulling a ton of bricks for 51 hours while swimming 22 miles alone across Lake St. Clair to Detroit, in support of Habitat for Humanity's "ReBuild Michigan" campaign, following the city declaring bankruptcy. As the first to combine a world record feat of strength with marathon swimming, Jim Dreyer coined the term "strength swimming." Now, in moving toward his upcoming series of swimming adventures, Jim has also introduced the term "open water rucking," which involves swimming with a weighted backpack, in support of U.S. veterans causes. These are new twists to open water swimming, which quickly heightened the interest in the sport by the media and public alike.
The open water, Jim Dreyer's greatest fear since a childhood near-drowning, has now become the playing field for much of his unprecedented athletic success. Controlling fear and harnessing "Cornerstone Strength in the Face of Burden" is a popular subject of his inspirational presentations, as an accomplished speaker on the circuit.
Just two years after learning to swim, Jim started his ultra-marathon career with a 65-mile swim across Lake Michigan. He went on to become the first to set records swimming across all five Great Lakes, in a series benefitting the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Highlights include his self-sufficient swim across the raging waters of Lake Superior, in which he swam 60 miles in 60 hours alone, while towing 250 pounds of supplies and finding his way from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Canada … an event chronicled by Ripley's Believe it or Not. As the first to combine Ironman-distance running and biking with swimming record distances in a continuous event, Jim ran 26.2 miles through the beach sand, biked 130 miles, and swam 56 miles across Lake Ontario in another of his most notable events.
Jim holds a black belt in tae kwon do, and has been an accomplished semi-professional baseball player, cross country skier and just missed making the U.S. Olympic team as a snowshoe competitor.
Jim Dreyer has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity.
Look for the release of Jim Dreyer's autobiography, Not in Moderation.
Let "The Shark" stir up the waters at your organization's next conference.
Jim "The Shark" Dreyer was designated a "Superhuman" with his appearance on the History Channel's popular TV series, Stan Lee's Superhumans. The segment, entitled "The Human Tugboat," featured Jim successfully towing a 27-ton car ferry while swimming across Newport Beach Harbor, in an astounding aquatic feat of strength. Jim Dreyer now has set 19 world records, and has been called the "next Jack LaLanne."
Jim's TV series debut came on the heels of pulling a ton of bricks for 51 hours while swimming 22 miles alone across Lake St. Clair to Detroit, in support of Habitat for Humanity's "ReBuild Michigan" campaign, following the city declaring bankruptcy. As the first to combine a world record feat of strength with marathon swimming, Jim Dreyer coined the term "strength swimming." Now, in moving toward his upcoming series of swimming adventures, Jim has also introduced the term "open water rucking," which involves swimming with a weighted backpack, in support of U.S. veterans causes. These are new twists to open water swimming, which quickly heightened the interest in the sport by the media and public alike.
The open water, Jim Dreyer's greatest fear since a childhood near-drowning, has now become the playing field for much of his unprecedented athletic success. Controlling fear and harnessing "Cornerstone Strength in the Face of Burden" is a popular subject of his inspirational presentations, as an accomplished speaker on the circuit.
Just two years after learning to swim, Jim started his ultra-marathon career with a 65-mile swim across Lake Michigan. He went on to become the first to set records swimming across all five Great Lakes, in a series benefitting the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Highlights include his self-sufficient swim across the raging waters of Lake Superior, in which he swam 60 miles in 60 hours alone, while towing 250 pounds of supplies and finding his way from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Canada … an event chronicled by Ripley's Believe it or Not. As the first to combine Ironman-distance running and biking with swimming record distances in a continuous event, Jim ran 26.2 miles through the beach sand, biked 130 miles, and swam 56 miles across Lake Ontario in another of his most notable events.
Jim holds a black belt in tae kwon do, and has been an accomplished semi-professional baseball player, cross country skier and just missed making the U.S. Olympic team as a snowshoe competitor.
Jim Dreyer has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity.
Look for the release of Jim Dreyer's autobiography, Not in Moderation.
Cornerstone Strength in the Face of Burden
