Adventures with Sacha Dench - 'the human swan'
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Robert has a chat with Sacha Dench, about her extraordinary journeys and upcoming EV adventure with birds as they migrate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another really fascinating episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | So excited to get this guest, this particular guest on the show, occasionally you meet people, |
| 0:32.6 | I mean I have only met today's guest virtually, but you meet people who's achievements are |
| 0:38.9 | so incredible that you just feel hugely inadequate. I mean for instance, for instance, today's |
| 0:45.5 | guest has won the Australian Free Diving Championship, well just while diving for the work |
| 0:52.2 | she does, and if you don't know what free diving is and you're not good at swimming, don't |
| 0:57.7 | Google it. It basically means going really deep underwater and holding your breath for |
| 1:01.2 | like a ridiculous amount of time. Anyway, that's nothing. That was just a little aside. |
| 1:05.9 | In 2016, today's guest flew 7,000 kilometers across 11 countries in a paramotor. Now |
| 1:13.7 | if you don't know what a paramotor is, have a Google of that, but we'll explain it in |
| 1:17.3 | the conversation. And she was tracking migrating bowic swans from the Russian Arctic to the UK. |
| 1:25.0 | They actually land a nest about 30 miles from where I live, but they come all the way from |
| 1:29.7 | Arctic Russia. Amazing. So, Sacha Dench is an incredible woman. This year, later this year, she's |
| 1:36.2 | going to be flying around the British Isles in an electrically powered paramotor to raise awareness |
| 1:42.5 | about the damage we're doing to the environment, to the marine ecosystem in particular. And she's |
| 1:48.0 | flying around the coast of the British Isles in her electric paramotor, just leading up to |
| 1:55.9 | a COP26, and then she's going to fly with some other migrating birds from the UK that are heading |
| 2:01.3 | back south down to Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, that area. Amazing achievements. And she's |
| 2:09.0 | a fascinating woman to talk to. So, Sacha Dench is this week's wonderful guest. And here she is |
| 2:15.8 | on the Flee Charge Plus podcast. |
| 2:29.0 | My energy is putting the eye back into British innovation. My energy is putting the eye |
| 2:35.3 | back into inventing the future. My energy is putting the eye back into inspiring a nation. |
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