Noam Yaron (@noamyaron_) will begin his 171 km crossing in the Mediterranean Sea from the island of Corsica to Monaco – called the Odyssée Méditerranée – on Friday, August 23rd at 8:00 am French time.
Yaron is expected to swim for 3 consecutive days where he will follow these guidelines and use the following equipment:
- He will not exit the water at any time
- He will not be dragged by the boat or any other marine vehicles
- FORM Swim Goggles
- SHOCKS MP3
- Swim streamer
- Jellyfish safety net on front of the escort boat to avoid jellyfish and capture flotsam, jetsam, plastics
- national Swiss team swim cap
- Nabaji 2/4 mm wetsuit
- Whoop sensor
- Freestyle glucose monitor
- Sharkbanz
- swim socks, gloves, and hood (optional) if large jellyfish blooms appear:
The Odyssée Méditerranée is part of Yaron’s 4th Sports for Nature campaign to raise awareness about water preservation and biodiversity protection in the Pelagos Marine Protected Area. His two goals are to raise public awareness of the need to preserve water and protect biodiversity in the Mediterranean and to set a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest assisted current neutral continuous wetsuit swim.
His swim window continues until August 31st, but a good weather window has emerged and it is go time.
Yaron will swim right through the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals, a Marine Protected Area for the protection of marine mammals (cetaceans). The MPA covers an area of approximately 84,000 square kilometers between Toulon (French Riviera), Capo Falcone (western Sardinia), Capo Ferro (eastern Sardinia) and Fosso Chiarone (Tuscany).
Yaron says, “Since the announcement of the challenge, our campaigned reached over 8.5 million people around the world. We are fortunate to have big organization such as IUCN and Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco and other experts in France, Monaco, and Italy to build a solid campaign with the simple but crucial mission of encouraging the 3 countries that govern the Pelagos sanctuary to each preserve 10% (highly or fully) of the area to achieve the objective of the scientific call 30×30 set by the UN.
At a political level, we have the institutional support of Presence Switzerland, which will be present at the announcement of the challenge and at the arrival in Monaco, which will enable us to include political figures, to position our partners as agents of change and thus to initiate discussions while calling for concrete measures to be taken.
We inspire the world to be a better place.”
For more information, visit www.calvi-monaco.com. Follow his tracker here.
For a list of the longest open water swims, see Marathon Swimmers Federation list here.
Yaron will also have Philippe Stefanini, PhD onboard his escort boat.
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