Nine students with disabilities spent the morning of Tuesday, April 2, discovering the joys of sailing. Schooled at Emile Choisy, they were invited on Stéphane Mifsud's sailboat.
Touched by the passages of Irma and Maria in the Antilles, the world record holder of static apnea (11 minutes and 35 seconds in 2009) crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone and under sail, for an environmental mission entitled "L 'Blue Odyssey'. After having made a stopover in Martinique and Guadeloupe, since the beginning of last week he has carried out several awareness-raising interventions with primary and secondary school pupils in Saint-Martin.
Actions funded solely from his personal funds through conferences and freediving courses, but carried out in partnership with national education and coordinated by Christophe Parisot, educational advisor in PSE. In addition to having revealed to the children the richness of the waters of Saint-Martin, Stéphane Mifsud has distributed hundreds of masks, fins and snorkels so that they can continue to explore it.
“When we love things we protect them. And to like things, you have to know them, ”he sums up before getting the students on board a dinghy in Marigot to take them aboard his sailboat. This initiation is the last of its educational and awareness-raising actions among Saint-Martin children in favor of the environment. Equipped with exceptional capacities, it also lends its services to scientific missions in order to approach cetaceans in apnea, without disturbing them. "I also carried out punching operations in Martinique and Guadeloupe to clean up the sea and the coast and made the children act directly so that they understand".
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