Blue Ambassadors

Bryony Shaw is Britain’s most successful women’s windsurfer ever and the only British woman to have won an Olympic windsurfing medal. Raised in Oxfordshire, Shaw deferred her architecture studies at Cardiff University to concentrate full-time on Olympic campaigning. That decision …

I am Sarah Outen, a young(ish) adventurer at 2.5 decades old, hooked on life and wild places, and inspiring others to follow their own dreams. One day I will be a teacher, be it in a classroom or not, and …

Triple round the world sailor, Conrad Humphreys, 38 was born in Devon, UK and spent the majority of his early life racing dinghies on the River Exe. At the age of 19, he left school to focus on sailing full …

Dave Cornthwaite is an Adventurer, Author and Motivational Speaker. He is best known for his audacious project, Expedition1000 – twenty-five journeys of 1000 miles or more, each using a different form of non-motorised transport. To date, Dave has completed four …

Sara is a world-class freediver, with four world records and a World Championship Gold medal to her name. Referred to affectionately by her fellow athletes as ‘Mighty Mouse’, she is also the smallest freediver on the circuit, at just under …

On May 17th 2006 James Hooper became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, summiting just after his 19th birthday. He successfully completed the first manpowered pole to pole expedition in 2008. James Hooper was educated at Christ’s Hospital School …

Being a Polar explorer gives you a lot of time to think, to question your desire to continue. But Antony Jinman never does. The question was answered at 22, when a snowboarding accident split a vertebra and broke his back. …

Anne Quéméré is the only woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions on the Southern and Northern routes and she has also crossed the Atlantic on a third occasion by kite sailing from New York to France. …

Samantha Davies entered the public eye during the Vendée Globe 2009. During the months spent in solitary on Roxy, Sam showed her considerable spirit and joy of sailing to all who didn’t yet know her. Her achievement (finishing 4th in …

Rosalind (Roz) Savage was born on 23 December 1967 in Cheshire, UK. She showed neither ability nor enthusiasm for sport while at school, but took up rowing when she arrived at University College, Oxford, because she wanted to be able …

Steph’s won the BKSA women’s national trophy in 2006 in the freestyle discipline and swiftly bettered it this year by winning the Pro Kite Tour womens world kiterace crown. Steph grew up sailing in Exmouth and developed an incredible knowledge …