A 9-year-old boy, wanting to help Hurricane Katrina victims, swam
from Alcatraz to San Francisco, raising $30,000 in donations in
the process.

Fourth-grader Johnny Wilson made the mile-and-a-half swim in the
choppy, 53-degree water of San Francisco Bay in under two hours.

Wilson called the swim tiring, but said he kept telling himself,
“I'm almost there, I'm almost there.” The
9-year-old boy said the beginning was the hardest because
that's when he was the coldest. His classmates on the shore,
cheered: “Go, Johnny! Go, Johnny!”

Alcatraz prison closed in 1963 and is now a tourist attraction
and not a single inmate ever successfully escaped.