Date: 30 May 2023 JONO RIDLER TAKES HIS MESSAGE FOR THE HAURAKI GULF TO PARLIAMENT Today open water endurance swimmer Jono Ridler is meeting with politicians in Wellington following his record breaking 33-hour swim from Aotea Great Barrier Island to Campbells Bay on...
A push to restore native rimurimu kelp into Whakaraupō Lyttleton Harbour is progressing with experimental reseeding efforts now underway, taking lab-grown seedlings into the wild. In collaboration with local iwi, the research team identified five sites around...
Jono Ridler recaps Swim4TheGulf in his own words… Our window for Swim4TheGulf started on Tuesday April 25th, with dates chosen to overlap a neap tide. The wind, however, was not playing ball. A summer of high winds had continued well into autumn. I checked the...
Date: 5 May 2023 JONO RIDLER GAVE IT EVERYTHING – AND HE MADE IT Live Ocean says ‘Let’s make it count’ following successful Swim4TheGulf He made it! From Aotea Great Barrier to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. 33-year-old Aucklander Jono Ridler completed a...
33-year-old Aucklander Jono Ridler will attempt a New Zealand record non-stop ultra-distance open water swim from Karaka Bay, Aotea Great Barrier Island to Narrow Neck Beach, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland in a weather window on or soon after 25th April. Jono’s...
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