Boat International US Edition - June 2018

The judges

Sir Charles Dunstone

Executive chairman

of TalkTalk Group

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Writer, broadcaster

and campaigner

Professor Alex David Rogers

Professor of Conservation

Biology, University of Oxford

Professor Callum Roberts

Marine conservation biologist,

University of York

George Duffield

Co-founder of

Blue Marine Foundation

Peter Lürssen

CEO, Lürssen

Professor Annette Broderick

Professor of Marine Conservation,

University of Exeter

Romain Troublé

Executive director of the

Tara Expeditions Foundation

Co-chairs

Sacha Bonsor

Editor-in-chief of Boat International

Charles Clover

Executive director of

Blue Marine Foundation

Activist

LEWIS PUGH

Founder,the Lewis Pugh

Foundation

A maritime lawyer by profession, as

well as a UN Environment Goodwill

Ambassador and endurance

swimmer, Lewis Pugh is best known

for his superhuman ability to survive

immersion in near-freezing water.

He uses this talent to publicize the

plight of the polar oceans through

“Speedo diplomacy,” which he

defines as “a fair bit of swimming,

and a great deal of listening.” The

48-year-old has completed two

swims in the Ross Sea. Delighted by

its designation as an MPA, he’s not

stopping, campaigning to expand

protection with three more MPAs.

The Ross Sea is home to 38 percent of the

world’s Adélie penguins, 26 percent of

Emperor penguins and seven species of

fish that are found nowhere else, as well

as being an invaluable source of research

as the least spoiled ocean on the planet

PHOTOGRAPHY: JOHN WELLER; GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY