Egyptian expat Shehab Allam has already won countless swimming championships, but he wanted to do something ‘different’. So, wearing his monofin, he swam 25km from Al Seef to Dubai Water Canal, hoping to smash a world record. The 30-year-old Dubai resident completed the distance in exactly five hours and 55 minutes, and he believes he has successfully broken the current world record for long-distance swimming with a fibre glass monofin ...