Noam Yaron is a creative ocean advocate and extreme adventure swimmer from Switzerland who will attempt a 171 km crossing in the Mediterranean Sea from the island of Corsica to Monaco in late August.
His Odyssée Méditerranée will be a 3-day non-stop assisted marathon swim where he will use a wetsuit, an MP3 player, anti-jellyfish net, and a swim streamer.
It 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. This two dual goals are to raise public awareness of the need to preserve water and protect biodiversity in the Mediterranean and to set two Guinness World Records for the world’s longest assisted sea swim and longest assisted open water swim in the Mediterranean Sea.
His swim window is between August 17th and 31st with his latest planned arrival in Monaco on September 3rd.
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.”
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