The Vendée Globe has never been so connected. Thanks to technological progress, skippers share their daily lives almost in real time: exploits, obstacles and moments of emotion. A digital immersion that brings spectators and sailors together.
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The last humans, in the flesh, said goodbye to them on November 10. But for the Vendée Globe sailors, the thread that connects them to Earth is increasingly… digital.
Thanks to the progress of satellite connections, everything can now be shared so easily. The symbolic moments, the acrobatic actions, the big depressions and the little ailments. Or even… Weather lessons.
A trip around the world is a long time. So the skippers also share their daily lives with us, almost without filter. Without forgetting to show us the sea with increasingly immersive images.
Each skipper must send a minimum of six photos and three videos per week. Result, nearly 4,000 videos shared to date. A real wave, even if it means drowning in it a little. And when they don’t send news, it’s Earth that calls them.
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Not to mention interviews on France 3, videos and a show, Vendée Live, live every day.
A Vendée Globe without disconnection, some will regret it, but it allows you to live up close the often magical daily life of a sailor, not so lonely after all.
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