1 day Ago By Christopher Reive
In a race around the world , Peter Burling and Blair Tuke identified a new path to follow. A rarity for the pair throughout their professional sailing careers, the Olympic gold medallists and America’s Cup winners were competing against one another in their bid to add the Ocean Race title to their collection. During the 2017-18 edition of the race, the pair got to see plenty of the beauty the open ocean had to offer, but also the troubles it was facing.
While they competed apart, they came together to see if they could do anything with their platforms to help address it, establishing their foundation Live Ocean soon after. “Doing the Ocean Race was the catalyst for a couple of reasons. We saw during that race the power of sport, and there were a couple of teams in the race that did great things with their platform and through a sporting event brought people around some of the bigger issues of our time,” Tuke told the Herald .
“We saw that, we also saw during the race how connected the world is with what happens in Asia or in South America or anywhere. There are no borders in the ocean..
