27-year-old Swiss swimmer Noam Yaron (@noamyaron) pushed himself to the limit with a hard-working crew over 97 hours from Calvi in Corsica to Monaco on a 180 km Odyssée Méditerranée assisted cross-border swim. Yaron has over 6.1 million followers on his social media platforms where he raises awareness of the importance of protecting the Mediterranean Sea.
He began in Calvi at 7:51 am on Monday, August 10th and is now approaching Monaco at 1:45 pm on Friday, August 15th, without once exiting the sea.
Update #1: Yaron was pulled from the water and is now resting comfortably in a local hospital. He will hold a press conference on Saturday, August 16th at 4:30 pm at the Le Méridien Beach Plaza Monaco Hotel.
Update #2: Yaron remains in a hospital recovering.
Issues of the Odyssée Méditerranée
Weather: Fortunately, Yaron had the near perfect weather window, starting on Monday morning at 8 am until the finish on Friday morning at
Salinity: His terribly irritated and inflamed salt water tongue was mitigated by taking cortisone pills.
4 Night / 5 Days in the Water: He addressed the physical effort behind his swim by taking micro naps, and using navigation lines and a swim streamer
His support crew included crew chief Caroline Caillet, Marine Dufour, Mireille Miller, Zélya Gilliard, Charlotte Fighera, Mathilde Fischer, Hugo Beltrami, Romain Dancre, skipper Bernard Gianola, Michel Pierre Hauzeur, Dominique Glauser, Arnaud Bohren, Lena Narbel, coach Markus Marthaler, and for research on the secondary boat Annick Yaron, Hélène Valentine Ferreira Martins, Stéphanie Pierre, Maxime Mergalet, Jean Michel Cambarot, and Marine Orsatti.
For more information and additional updates on his non-contiguous, non-continuous assisted cross-border stage swim attempt in the Mediterranean Sea, visit www.calvi-monaco.com and follow his press conference tomorrow.
Latest information from the escort boat before being pulled after 2 pm local time today: “We would like to inform you that Noam is being closely monitored by our team and is progressing at his own pace. He is continuing his adventure with determination, defending nature and raising public awareness in front of the media waiting for him on the beach of the Le Méridien Beach Plaza Hotel.”
The Last 10 Hours
The swim tracker above captures the last 10 hours of Yaron’s swim in which he progressed only 2 kilometers. The last part of the tracker shows where Yaron was finally placed in his escort boat and sped off to shore. For more information on Yaron’s course tracker, visit here courtesy of Evan Morrison of Marathon Swimmers Federation.
On the other side of the European continent on same day at roughly the same time, two-time Polish Olympian Karolina Szczepaniak was attempting to swim 172 km across the Baltic Sea from her native Poland to the Swedish island of Öland. Her last 10 hours of her swim were also painfully slow where it sounded like she was crying during her live webcast. For more information on her course tracker, visit here courtesy of Morrison.
Both Yaron and Szczepaniak were seeking a Guinness World Record for the Longest Wetsuit Swim.
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