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One swimmer, 1,367 kilometres and a mission to revive our ocean | Jono Ridler | TEDxWaihī Beach
TEDx Talks· 2026-07-29 16:03
[music] >> I want to start first with a story. I sat on the boat making the 2-hour journey from our campground at Aotearoa Beach to Waikuku Beach, the northernmost point below the North Cape and the starting point for our swim down the entire East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand. We made it off the shore.I chucked a a few things into the inflatable rescue boat, the IRB, alongside and was shuttled to the empty shore that lay ahead. Soon Soon enough, others started arriving from land having made a 2-h ...