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A hard day’s night

Day 5 Vendee Globe blog from Blue Ambassador, Sam Davies, skipper of Saveol: A hard day today as Saveol and I have been crossing the cold front and its thundery low pressure system. As I am a bit behind the …

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Sam is ready for second Vendee Globe

The 2012 Vendee Globe is set to get underway in just over three days and Blue Ambassador, Sam Davies, skipper of Savéol, will bring her charming smile to this year’s edition. This brave young mother is also a true sea lover. …

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Stage Two complete. Next up, the Atlantic!

A week on from successfully completing his 500 blue mile South Coast paddle from Lands End to London, Charlie Head is already planning his next big adventure, to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean on a Stand Up Paddle board. Scheduled …

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South Coast complete, just the Thames to go!

Charlie Head, from the Isle of Wight set out from Lands End, in Cornwall on 12th September to paddle 500 Blue miles along the South Coast of England to London on a Stand Up Paddle board.  A month on and …

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Monty delivers a fascinating Blue Lecture

Writer, television presenter and Marine Biologist, Monty Halls delivered a fascinating talk at this year’s Blue Lecture. Speaking about his early career as a former Royal Marine, he left the marines at 29 to pursue his passion for the oceans …

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Dave Cornthwaite completes Expedition #5

On Saturday 31st March 2012, Blue Ambassador, Dave Cornthwaite onboard the 72ft ocean going yacht, Sea Dragon sailed in to Honolulu, Hawaii to complete expedition #5 in his Expedition1000 series of  journeys – 25 non motorised journeys of a distance …

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Paul’s Blue Q&A

Q1. How and when did your career start as a diver, expedition leader and television presenter? It’s hard to find a definite start point – but here’s my outline career journey; Even as a young boy I knew that the …

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Caroline’s Blue Q&A

Q1. How and when did get into the sport of Big Mountain and Powder Skiing? My mom put me on skis for the first time when I was 18 months old and I started my love affair with big mountain …

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Daniel’s Blue Q&A

Q1. How and when did your career as a natural environment photographer begin? Officially about four years ago, when I created the Wild Image Project. But in reality, ever since I was a ten year old boy. When I was …

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Sport & the Environment in Harmony

We’ve come across this jaw-dropping and award-winning picture, showing land and sea linked by a rainbow and a surfer.  Photographer Zak Noyle snapped the rare natural phenomenon of a rainbow touching down above the head of a surfer off the …

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CapeTown – a place where two oceans collide

I picked up a copy of Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson on my way out to the Beyond Sport summit and awards last week. We’ve been working round the clock to get the new Blue Project site launched and …

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