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Calvi – Monaco swimmingThis Vaudois recovers from a “superhuman” challenge to the hospital
To raise awareness of the spell allocated to the Mediterranean Sea, Noam Yaron had set himself swimming 180 kilometers in free water without interruption. He (almost) succeeded.
“We come back with news from Noam. The evolution of his state is reassuring. He still needs rest to recover from this superhuman effort that he has made. ” Sunday evening, the entourage of the Morgian swimmer Noam Yaron made a situation point on the still fragile health of the one who had launched a somewhat crazy challenge: swimming in Calvi, in Haute-Corse, in Monaco, or 180 kilometers in free water in the Mediterranean Sea, in combination and without interruption.
Leaving last Monday, the 28 -year -old Vaudois will have held five days and four nights, 102 hours at sea, before resolving himself to abandon Friday, exhausted, two kilometers from the finish. “He breathes, he speaks. He was taken care of by doctors, “wrote his team.
Questioned on Saturday in “Forum” on the reasons which prompted the team to get him out of the water, Charlotte Fighera, who was at sea with him all along, spoke of the hours that followed the fateful decision. “The fourth night was particularly complicated, with extreme fatigue and cold,” said the communication manager of the eco-sport. The next day, Noam began to undergo the consequences of the lack of sleep, the physical impact of salt water on the body and the lungs. He had burns due to the fact that he had to remove his combination to go to the toilet. Above all, he lost the thread of reality. He no longer understood that he had to swim. ”
Never two without three?
After several challenges on the Swiss lakes in recent years, such as the crossing of Lake Geneva in its length, Noam Yaron had decided to see greater with this adventure, to lead a real awareness campaign for the preservation of water and biodiversity. “What could be better than crossing one of the most polluted seas in the world to illustrate the subject,” he said in “time” in April 2024.
It was the second time that the Morgian tried the uninterrupted Calvi-Monaco crossing. A year ago, unfavorable weather conditions had already forced him to abandon, after 103 kilometers in 48 hours. There, counting the drifts, he swam 191 kilometers, said Charlotte Fighera. What to say that the mission is widely accomplished.
