Chris Bertish: Big-wave surfer, trans-Atlantic paddle boarder, speaker, and author

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week's guest is Chris Bertish: big-wave surfer, trans-Atlantic paddle boarder, speaker, and author. Among his many accomplishments, he won the 2010 Mavericks Big Wave Invitational surfing contest. He almost died that day, but he didn’t let that minor detail stop him. And he’s a Guinness World Record holder.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:44.7	I'm Guy Kawasaki, and this is remarkable people.
0:48.7	This episode's guest is Chris Burdish,
0:51.1	a South African surfer, paddleboarder, speaker, and author.
0:55.6	Among his many accomplishments, he won the 2010 Mavericks Big Wave
1:00.0	Invitational Surfing Contest. He almost died that day, but he didn't let that minor detail
1:05.7	stop him. In 2017, he completed a solo 4,700-mile, 93-day journey from Morocco to Antigua on a paddleboard.
1:15.6	This set a Guinness World Record for the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard.
1:21.6	Millions of people are experiencing isolation because of the coronavirus.
1:26.6	In this podcast, you'll learn what it takes to survive 93 days of isolation on a stand-up paddleboard
1:32.9	in the Atlantic Ocean.
1:35.1	By the way, do you know why it's unwise to catch and eat fish as you're paddling across
1:39.4	the Atlantic?
1:41.0	Keep listening to learn why this is true.
1:44.4	A few explanatory notes.
1:47.0	Burdash refers to Jeff several times in this interview.
1:50.4	This would be Jeff Clark, a person who discovered Mavericks and surfed it alone for years.
1:55.9	A school of Dorado fish escorted Burdish.
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