Alexandre’s four day crossing / Ocean 71

Mahdia-Lampedusa crossing: First day

Here we are! This is it, here we go! We’re setting sail and grabbing the ...

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A success for first crossing between Tunisia and Lampedusa !

Alexandre Georges has arrived in the port of Lampedusa at 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday, September 13! After setting out of Mahdia, Tunisia, and after four days paddling in the middle of the Mediterranean, the man has successfully vanquished his fears, his doubts and has completed the crossing so many men and women go on at [...]

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Unloading Swordfish under observation © Philippe Henry / Ocean71

Malta – Traditional fishing drowned in regulations

  Small fishing village of Marsaxlokk (pronounce “Marsachlok“), in the southern part of the island of Malta, late afternoon. Paul Piscopo is not really the emotional type. He has been a commercial fisherman all his life and, for years, has been at the head of the fishing cooperative catering to the fishermen of the southern [...]

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Bluefin Tuna – Dive in Azzopardi’s Farm (Malta)

Some of the pictures Philippe Henry took, while on an exceptional dive into a bluefin tuna pen off the coast of Malta.

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Mgarr harbour © Philippe Henry / Ocean 71

Stranded in Malta, for worse… and better

    We should have been in Lampedusa for a week now… And we are still in Malta. It is a fact. It’s not for lack of trying. Last Monday, we were writing a few lines explaining we were ready to leave Malta to rally the small Italian island of Lampedusa and release sea turtles [...]

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