Leaving on February 14 from the Canaries to join Martinique by rowing, Stéphane Brogniart set foot on dry land on Sunday. He discovered the confinement imposed on the French since mid-March, and draws a parallel between their experience and that which he has just lived.

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After two months at sea, he set foot on dry land in Martinique on Sunday and discovered containment. Stéphane Brogniart, mental trainer for high performance athletes, had launched an extraordinary sporting challenge. Leaving February 14 from the Canaries, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean by oar to reach Martinique. When he arrived, he too had to confine himself. In the fortnight on the boat belonging to friends, at the microphone of Europe 1, he spoke on Tuesday of a link between his experience and that lived by the French since mid-March.

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Confined in the middle of the ocean

In confinement, there is a form of obligation and constraint, even if it is really necessary to follow this method because the virus is violent he affirms, evoking a parallel with his life on his boat. "I couldn't go far, around me it was the ocean". 

In total, it will have taken 70 days across the Atlantic in a boat imagined for this type of crossing. "I have all the technology on board my boat to be as efficient as possible, even if the sea is always the last to be right."

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, ́ '̀,' .. The whole family @etarcos_adventures is proud to have made this project a reality. The conditions made this crossing between El Hierro and La Martinique more than solid .. But that's why we are here .. Thank you all .. The great biz and no stupidity ..

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"Back to basics"

During this challenge, which he thought was impossible, Stéphane Brogniart said he had experienced an extraordinary moment. "" We could have imagined everything during this crossing, but I never imagined that a parallel had been created with what you have been experiencing for a month and a half, in the form of a constraint, but also a return to the essential".

For him, indeed, his experience, but also ours, is an opportunity to return "to certain simple values, which make us much happier", he says. He has already launched a new challenge for next year. He will cross the Pacific with the oar.