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News
November 2007
What a honour. The Australian Geographic Society
awarded Lloyd the 2007 Australian Adventurer of the Year at the
Society's annual awards held at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney in
September. Lloyd and Carolina dedicated the award to Lloyd's father
for being a huge inspiration throughout the project. A special
thanks to the Australian Geographic Society for a very memorable and
emotional night; a night we will definitely remember for a long
time.
Lloyd followed this up with a 'highly commendable' mention in the
annual Powerhouse Museum Wizard of the Year Awards in November.
October 20th
2007
We are
off and racing. Alex, Lloyd and Carolina met at the port of Voula,
Athens today for some catching up. The newspaper ‘Kathimerini’ was there
too to find out all about our new project.
In the photo below you can see some early prototypes of the new fin
technology that is going to be used in the submarines and in a 2008 freediving world record attempt by Herbert Nitsch. We can’t show you too
much yet as this is innovative technology and top secret! (From left:
Alex Sarasitis, Carolina Sarasiti and Lloyd Godson)
October 10th 2007
We
officially have our first sponsor on board! The Australian Geographic
Society, our major sponsor for ‘The BioSUB Project’, has happily agreed
to be part of our next adventure. They had many projects to choose from,
but the selection committee couldn’t go past the ‘Life Amphibious’. This
is very exciting news as it has made us come to realise that people
believe in us. We are hoping that since we have secured our first
sponsor, the second one might follow soon. In any case, we are committed
to moving forward now. There is no turning back!
September 2007
Our team’s first project, ‘The
BioSUB Project',
was a huge success. We did it all from designing and building an
underwater habitat, organising media, sponsors, and volunteers, to
living underwater for 12 days in a wacky scientific experiment. ‘The
BioSUB Project’ reached and inspired people from all around the world,
including students of all ages, scientists, adventurers as well as the
general public. It has been an amazing journey for all of us involved.
The best result from our first adventure is the shared enthusiasm to do
another exciting adventure. Once you start, you can’t stop! After
working together for 18 months on ‘The BioSUB Project’, the underwater
team is together again, with the addition of extreme freediver and world
record holder Herbert Nitsch of Austria. (Below: the BioSUB underwater
habitat getting lowered into the water)
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