Would I love to be this guy's biographer!

Mexican marathon swimmer, Sergio Valencia, was, at 17, primed to live long and well, the world his oyster. He'd swam down the Baja Coast, 24 hours in the water. But he was felled by an automobile accident that left him for dead with a severed spinal chord, on the road for 13 hours, never to walk again.
In 1985, after years as a recluse, el Tiburón Negro (the Black Shark) took to the water again, to "find peace in his soul" and reestablish his lost partnership with the sea. Eight years later, he became the first paralyzed person to swim the Strait of Gibraltar, from Spain to Morocco. Our problematic hero, bitter, arrogant, humbled, scrapes by today spearing fish and octopus in Ensenada, buoyed by the hope that, some day, his legs will live again.
Here's the full story from the LA Times.