Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Registrations open for the Ocean Kayak Cruce 2013




Ocean Kayak Cruce

Two shores, two cultures, two countries, two continents and two spirits: sports and adventure!


We announce a new annual competition of paddling boats: Ocean Kayak Cruce 2013.
Ocean Kayak Cruce 2013 is an orientation and endurance sporting event in which participants navigate in individual sea kayaks, paddle boards or surfski in order to join Africa with the Canary Islands from Tarfaya (Morocco) to Las Playitas (Fuerteventura, Spain) by covering non-stop and without any external food supply the 100 kilometers (62,15 sea miles) of open sea separating both places along the Atlantic Ocean.
The crossing has a very precise safety system on competitors, being monitored from a permanent control center on the island of Lanzarote. In addition, the boats will be accompanied by support vessels throughout the crossing to assist dropouts or other incidents. All participants will carry on their boat required additional safe features detailed in the event´s Regulation.
Ocean Kayak Crossing 2013 is cataloged as evidence Extrem, so no rate or conform to the rules of any official international competition circuit.
Ocean Kayak Cruce 2013 Edition will be held from October 28th to November 3rd, 2013; the number of competitors is limited in this edition to 25 participants. All athletes interested in making the Edition 2013 will be selected in order of registration, with priority given to those who register first. The organization will establish a waiting list of interested competitors. 

Two organizations are responsibles for Ocean Kayak Cruce: Donstop & No Limit.
Inscription opened from February 13th, 2013.
The organization of OKC is looking for representatives of proof in every country in the world. If you are interested, please contact us.
Also, the competitor who bring 4 people to the test, have a free registration for this year 2013.
For registration and more information: www.oceankayakcruce.com

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Richard Kohler suffers a shark attack

This morning, adventurer and sailman Richard Kohler has suffered a shark attack off the coast north of Durban, South Africa, while paddling in a surfski. Fortunately, he is safe, but the boat has got serious damage in the rudder system.

Richard is paddling all the South African Coast, from Mozambique border round to Namibia, in order to raise funds for Cipla Miles for Smiles Challenge, organization which tries to provide facial surgery to children with cleft lip or palate. In Richard's adventure webpage you can have all the information about this challenge and a link to make donations. Let's hope that today's incident is finally worth.


Thanks to Michelle Eray for the retwitt.