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Good morning and welcome to kid news. I'm Kim. Today is Wednesday, February 4th,

2026. And we begin with a 13-year-old boy from Australia

saving his family with what's being called a superhuman swim. Austin Appleby was paddleboarding

and kayaking with his mom, brother, and sister off the country's Western Coast Friday,

when the calm waters suddenly turned rough, flipping their boards, filling

the kayak with water, and drying them out to sea. With little choice, Austin left the others to swim

two and a half miles to shore to get help. Two hours in, he had to ditch his life jacket. He

wasn't making enough progress, and he told reporters he was scared.

I just said, all right, not today, not today, not today, I have to keep on going.

Two more hours of swimming through shark-infested waters, no less, he reached the beach,

called emergency services, and asked them to send out helicopters, boats, and planes,

which they did, finding the rest of Austin's family, wearing life jackets clinging to a paddleboard, which was now more than eight

miles from land. Ironically, Austin's dad told the rescue commander that his son had recently

failed a swim test. Well, the commander responded, make sure you have that teacher call me.

And this is why you do a dress rehearsal. After putting Artemis 2 through a pre-flight

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