Ersin Aydin Passes Away, Swam For The Fatherland Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I’ve done it for the Fatherland,” said Ersin Aydin, a Turkish swimmer who swam in a shark cage from Mersin in southern Turkey to Kyrenia (Girne) on the north coast of Cyprus in 43 hours 20 minutes in 1973. According to […]