Hoover Dam: Ruthin man fined for stag do swim - BBC News
An "adrenaline junkie" from Wales says he has no regrets about the swim that cost him £250.
An "adrenalin junkie" from north Wales has been fined by police in America after swimming across the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam.

Arron Hughes, 28, was on a stag do when he took a dip at the dam on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas.

The forklift driver from Ruthin, Denbighshire, was arrested at the scene and fined $330 (£250).

"We got there and it was absolutely roasting. I thought to myself 'I'm going in for a dip'," he said.

Turbines close to where Mr Hughes was swimming were not on when he was in the water on 8 August.

"The plan was just to go for a little dip at the start and then I thought 'I can make this' so I swam across, I made it from Arizona to Nevada," he said.

"I don't have any regrets. I even have a tattoo saying 'no regrets', that's the type of person I am."

His ticket issued by Nevada police lists the offence as: "Jumping, diving, swimming from dam's spillways or other structures."

Mr Hughes said he did not realise swimming at the landmark was an offence as he did not see any signs.