Sea Donkey Opens Up For Open Water Community
Courtesy of James Harrison, Guernsey across the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. The weekend of the WOWSA Talks & WOWSA Awards will open up with the documentary film Sea Donkey. A fascinating insider view of channel swimming by filmmaker James Harrison about Adrian Sarchet‘s North Channel preparations and success was voted as the 2017 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
“Sea Donkey tells the dramatic and deeply touching story of Adrian Sarchet and his difficult challenge – an inspirational battle – across the North Channel,” described Steven Munatones.
“The documentary, directed by James Harrison, celebrates the depth of the human spirit of an ordinary man, an advocate from Guernsey, who took to the open water with a passionate desire after more than a decade of lawyering. As he closing in on becoming one of the few people who have completed the Oceans Seven, Sarchet is now far beyond the poor health he had previously existed with. Sarchet transformed himself from a law-obsessed professional to a broad-minded adventurer. Through riveting interviews with the protagonist, pilot and crew amid beautiful imagery between Northern Ireland and Scotland, Sarchet’s personal journey is an improbable, mind-bending and astonishing path to becoming one of the world’s most adventurous extreme athletes.
Harrison dramatically captures and shares the challenges and joys so prevalent in the sport of channel swimming making Sea Donkey thoroughly enjoyable and well-worth watching.”
Sea Donkey joins the following past winners of the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year:
* 2012: SWIM Channel by Patrick Wrinkler (Brazil)
* 2013: International Ice Swimming Association by Ram Barkai (South Africa)
* 2014: Step Out Of The Ordinary Blue Letter Campaign by Pádraig Mallon and Camlough Lake Water Festival (Ireland)
* 2015: World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia by the International Ice Swimming Association
* 2016: Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Turkey)
* 2017: Sea Donkey by James Harrison about Adrian Sarchet of Guernsey
Sea Donkey from Sea Donkey Productions on Vimeo in Guernsey. To watch Sea Donkey and listen to the 24 speakers from 12 countries across 4 continents at the WOWSA Talks & WOWSA Awards, visit here.
DVD artwork courtesy of Alex Digard.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. 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), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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