{"id":2880,"date":"2024-05-11T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impronunciable.com\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:35:35","slug":"strait-of-gibraltar-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/strait-of-gibraltar-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Gibraltar: Done!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally, on Saturday the 4th of May, after the perfect alignment of the stars \u2014 low wind and currents compatible with human life \u2014 I was finally able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must admit, I didn\u2019t swim. I went on a cool-looking rigid fishing boat to film Aleksandrina Til (@tilalex<\/a>), who, despite having only recently started open-water swimming, has already crossed both the Strait of Bonifacio and the Strait of Gibraltar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at the end of the day \u2014 I have crossed the strait.<\/em> At last!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me, children, tell you how I met your\u2026<\/em> Sorry, sorry\u2026 Let me rephrase: I must do a small (tiny, I would say) flashback, but it all started around 2012, when I started working with Neda el M\u00f3n<\/a>, cool people have to say, who have done countless (well, they are countable, but, a lot<\/em>) of open water crossings in Catalonia, and some a little further away (Bonifacio<\/a>, Gibraltar<\/a>, Rodas, among others).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow, I’ve strayed from the subject here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is that shortly after I started taking photos and recording cool videos, I found out that they organize Gibraltar Strait crossings, and that they have an agreement with ACNEG<\/a>, the people who are in charge of logistics and the shit-ton of mandatory permits in Tarifa itself. Long story short: year after year, i’ve been making pictures many crossings, but missing Gibraltar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once, I was about to go to Tarifa to record a documentary (self-produced) about a swimmer attempting the crossing. But fate and my highly precarious economy allied themselves to prevent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, jump forward ten years to last year, while I was working for Neda el M\u00f3n<\/a> in Bonifacio<\/a> Strait, Aleksandrina asked if someone could record some videos of her crossing, to document her challenge on crossing both straits. And since I rarely say no to interesting projects, I definitely wasn\u2019t going to say no to this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She successfully crossed Bonifacio\u2026 and this year, she\u2019s taking on Gibraltar! Apparently, she likes how I work \u2014 and my charming personality \u2014 so she wants to collaborate again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandrina giving her best while she crosses the Gibraltar Strait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During the filming, Dr\u00f3n Ram\u00f3n faced several attacks from furious seagulls who clearly didn\u2019t appreciate his presence in their airspace. Between the drone battles, shorter than i like nights, spontaneous hotel changes, and consuming more caz\u00f3n tapas than medically advisable, we managed to capture some amazing footage \u2014 and even better memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that, children, is the true story of how I met your mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026I mean, how I crossed the Strait. My bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After over ten years documenting swims with Neda el M\u00f3n, I finally crossed the Strait of Gibraltar \u2014camera in hand, feet on a boat. I filmed Aleksandrina Til (@tilalex) taking on the challenge of crossing both Bonifacio and Gibraltar straits. An adventure full of open water passion, drones, angry seagulls, and unforgettable moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,19,20],"tags":[21,31,27,28,34,35,36],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-experience","category-openwater","category-photography","category-videography","tag-acneg-es","tag-crossing","tag-gibraltar-es","tag-neda-el-mon-es","tag-open-water","tag-photo","tag-work","has-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuathstudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}