Volvo Ocean Race - Cape Town Stopover
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Hanli is an eleven-times South African freediving record holder, filmmaker and avid ocean adventurer. She has a background in acting, documentary filmmaking as well as thirteen years of competitive freediving experience. Her filmmaking work has taken her into the front-lines of social political conflict all over Africa, from Burundi to Uganda, South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe and more. Hanli is a strong believer in the greatness of the human spirit under the toughest of circumstances, having seen beauty and hope flourish where least expected. This has inspired her to leave the camera behind and focus all her energy on ocean conservation through human experience. Using freediving as a tool, Hanli has trained an array of top athletes from rugby players to swimmers and surfers- working with mental toughness, mind over body control and consciousness. Her work with the world’s top big wave surfers has won her international recognition and acclaim. Believing in the power of storytelling and inpiration, Hanli shares her experiences through motivational speaking, guest appearances and corporate team building. She has been nominated for (amongst others) the Cosmo Awesome Women of the Year Awards, Out there Adventurer of the Year, Gsport’s Women in Sport, Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans as well as a 'strider' in the Johnny Walker Celebrating Strides Awards.'
Riaan Manser Riaan Manser became the first person to cycle around the entire perimeter of Africa. For over two years, he pedalled a massive 37,000kms through 34 countries; some of which rank as the most dangerous places on Earth. It was a feat that earned him the title Adventurer of the Year 2006 and made his resulting book, 'Around Africa on my bicycle', a best-seller.
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Volvo Ocean Race Podcast
Jeff Ayliffe had an exclusive chat to PUMA Ocean Racing's skipper Ken Read today. When they last chatted, Ken was hoping to be back for the Volvo Ocean race 2011, but they had not confirmed. The team are are not only back, but have experienced a transatlantic victory aboard the new boat 'Mar Mostro', and Read told Jeff he was delighted to preparing for Alicante and the start of Volvo Ocean race action
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Team Camper’s South African crewman is Michael Pammenter, who sailed with Telefonica Black in 2008. Michael caught up with Jeff Ayliffe just after the boat Was being transported to New Zealand.
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Puma Ocean Racing’s Jono Swain is the 2nd of 3 South Africans in this years Volvo Ocean race. He chatted to Jeff Ayliffe about sleeping patterns and life aboard a Volvo open 70
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Capetonian Paul Wilcox is part of Abu Dhabi Racing in the Volvo Ocean Race, and he was chatting to Jeff Ayliffe shortly after the team pulled off a win in the Transnet after a close battle with Groupama.
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