Calvi-Monaco by swimming, the eco-scientific challenge of Rémi Camus
2013: He embarked on the descent of the Mekong in hydrospeed, 4,400 km from Tibet to Vietnam. There, he wants to understand how people live on the banks of this giant river. “ We realize that the Mekong is becoming an incredible spillway. On a daily basis, 70 million people throw their waste into this river and this ends up arriving in the Mekong Delta, where there is a quantity of waste that then goes into the seas and oceans. »
2018: This time he stays in France for a swimming Tour de France: 2,650 km from Dunkirk to Monaco. “ The goal was to meet the populations on the seafront and I wanted to see if they were aware of the problems of the French coast. I was convinced it was clean but found it was much worse than that. There are open landfills. A continent of waste exists, for example, off Saint-Jean-de-Luz, not to mention that the Mediterranean is a real trash can. It is not only France that is in question, there are other countries bordering this almost closed sea. And not everyone has the same environmental standards. »