MV Christena Memorial Swim with Valérie Grégorio, Jane Hansom, Mary Parks, Geoff Folsom

Steven Munatones 01/02/2021 open water swimming No Comment

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Valérie Grégorio found her way to St Kitts from her native Québec, Canada.

Valérie Grégoire is a marine biologist, coach, triathlete, open water swimmer, scuba dive instructor, Reef Check coordinator, a PADI Instructor, and the head swimming coach for the Special Olympics St Kitts athletes.

Grégoire started the MV Christena Memorial Swim, an 8.6 km memorial swim between Nevis and St Kitts in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea that commemorates the MV Christena Disaster. The swim was established to honor the victims of the worst maritime disaster in the English-speaking Caribbean Sea. When the MV Christena went down off St Kitts, only 91 of the 320 people on board survived in 1971.

On August 1st 2020, Jane Hansom, Mary Parks, Valérie Grégoire and Geoff Folsom completed a 4-person tandem swim from the site of the MV Christena disaster to Pinneys Beach on Nevis.

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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).

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