Zé Peixe Explained

José Martins Ribeiro Nunes (5 January 1927 – 26 April 2012),^[1] also known as Zé Peixe or Joe Fish, was a maritime pilot. Unusually, rather than meeting and departing from the ships out at sea using a pilot boat, he would swim to and from the ships, jumping heights of more than 40 meters (130 ft) and swimming about 10km (10miles) a day.

José was a native from Aracaju, Brazil, where he practiced his profession from 1947.

References

• News: 80 anos - Zé Peixe / Prático – uma profissão de coragem . Infonet . 2007-01-03 . 2008-03-19 . Portuguese . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706153125/http://www.infonet.com.br/noticias/ler.asp?id=53719&titulo=Noticias . 2011-07-06 .
• News: Fisch muss schwimmen . . 2007-01-03 . 2008-03-19 . German .

External links

• "An article in Portuguese about José Nunes" April, 2007 Vida Simples
• "An article in German about José Nunes" June, 2003 Fish has to swim

Notes and References

1. News: Zé Peixe: 85 anos de uma vida quase toda dedicada ao mar . Infonet . 26 April 2012 . 26 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140318052113/http://www.infonet.com.br/cidade/ler.asp?id=127413 . 18 March 2014 . dead .