In a landmark world-first, Francesca Clapcich, skipper of the 60-foot IMOCA 11th Hour Racing, joined UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean Peter Thomson for his first-ever live call-in with a team mid-race! 📞⛵️
Broadcasting directly from the North Atlantic during The Ocean Race Atlantic, the pair discussed:
– Changing weather conditions and sea state on the race course
– The team’s onboard citizen science program and marine mammal strike mitigation work
– Critical climate data tied to a changing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
All data collected onboard directly supports the Global Ocean Observation System, coordinated by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and is made freely available to climate science institutes worldwide.
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