Mission William

Our Ambassadors:

“William, the ambassador for the whale sharks, deserves all our attention. He, just like all the other species of sharks, is dangerously threatened by our out of control development, by our caprice, by our recklessness. Eviscerated by the vessels crossing the oceans, illegally caught and amputated of their fins, the whale sharks are disappearing in a total indifference We can not be the unconcerned accomplices of this silent genocide. The Mission William, which I support with enthusiasm, has a double virtue:

– first, to reunite a team of international scientists who will collect essentials data for the protections of these giants and

– Second, it’ll carry the voice of the “voiceless” to the general public and to the children, into their schools all over the world.

This shared knowledge will permit, I’m hoping, our reconciliation with the whale sharks and our other wild EARTH-mates of the ocean. François Sarano

Doctor in oceanography, scientific adviser to Commandant Cousteau and Jacques Perrin, François Sarano is co-founder of the association LONGITUDE 181, whose goal is the protection of the oceans.

The journalist sailor, Fabrice Amedeo, who will be taking part in his third Vendée Globe on 10 November, will be wearing the colours of Over the Swell:

“I’m excited to become an ambassador for Over the Swell and stand up for whale sharks. We have many projects together and for my part I also have a dream now: to dive with the whale sharks in Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea.

Protecting marine animals from our foils, our daggerboards, our keels and, more broadly, our boats is an essential issue for the IMOCA class and I am very happy that the silence on the subject is starting to dissipate. We cannot continue to kill marine mammals and whale sharks and modestly talk about collisions with Unidentified Objects.

Congratulations to the Vendée Globe, which has included this issue in its sporting specifications!“