unbfacts: Shavarsh Karapetyan, an eleven-time world-record…

unbfacts: Shavarsh Karapetyan, an eleven-time world-record holder in finswimming, saved 20 lives in 1976. While jogging, he witnessed a trolleybus crash into Yerevan Lake and immediately dove in. He repeatedly swam to the submerged bus, breaking a window with his legs to pull passengers out. He was hospitalized for 45 days with pneumonia and sepsis,… Read More »