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Two Continents - Two Oceans. A Stand Up Paddling Adventure through an historical 15 Mile passage! The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa.

The 02.06. will be our day of arrival in Tarifa and the official Start of the Event will be a Welcome Cocktail at the Club Mistral Center in Tarifa at 07.00 p.m.. After that, we´ll take you to a traditional spanish Tappas Bar for Dinner and going to check out the Nightlife of Tarifa. On the 03.06. we will start the day with a SUP Training Session along the Coastline in Tarifa in order to get your paddle technique right and prepare for the long distance paddle the next day. In the afternoon, we´ll do a SUP Waveriding Introduction, either in Tarifa or El Palmar.
On the 04.06. we´re going to start the passage an hour before sunrise. We´ll paddle together from Tarifas Atlantic Ocean side through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediteranian Sea. The sunrise on the water in between the two continents, the Atlantic Ocean in your back and the Mediteranian Sea in front of you, is kind of a "once in a lifetime" experience!
The passage will take approximately 5-6 hours (little breaks and drifting passages included :) ), so we´ll be back in Tarifa some time during the afternoon.
In the evening we´re going to have a beach BBQ, together with a little presentation of the pictures of the day !
Departure is on the 05th of June some time after breakfast.

About the Strait of Gibraltar

Europe and Africa are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km) of ocean at the strait's narrowest point. The Strait's depth ranges between 300 and 900 m (980 and 3,000 ft) which possibly interacted with the lower mean sea level of the last major glaciation 20,000 years before present when the level of the sea was believed to be lower by 110-120 m (360-390 ft). Ferries cross between the two continents every day in as little as 35 minutes.
Through the strait, water generally flows more or less continually in both an eastward and a westward direction. A smaller amount of deeper saltier and therefore denser waters continually work their way westwards, while a larger amount of surface waters with lower salinity and density continually work their way eastwards . These general flow tendencies may be occasionally interrupted for brief periods to accommodate temporary tidal flow requirements, depending on various lunar and solar alignments.
Still, on the whole and over time, the balance of the water flow is eastwards, due to an evaporation rate within the Mediterranean basin higher than the combined inflow of all the rivers that empty into it.

The Strait of Gibraltar - an historical passage

The Mediterranean waters are so much saltier than the Atlantic waters that they sink below the constantly incoming water and form a highly saline layer of bottom water. This layer of bottom-water constantly works its way out into the Atlantic as the Mediterranean outflow. The Mediterranean outflow water layer can be traced for thousands of kilometres west of the strait, before completely losing its identity.
During the Second World War, German U-Boats used the currents to pass in and out of the Mediterranean Sea without detection, by maintaining silence with engines off. From Sept 1941 to May of 1944 Germany managed to send 62 U-boats into the Mediterranean. All these boats had to navigate the dreaded British-controlled Straits of Gibraltar where 9 U-boats were sunk while attempting passage and 10 more had to break off their run due to damages. No U-boats ever made it back into the Atlantic and all were either sunk in battle or scuttled by their own crews.

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Organisation

The organisation is in the capable hands of the team at Club Mistral in Tarifa in coöperation with the professionals from watersports training who are specialised in Ocean Adventures, Courses and Voyaging.

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Price

250 euros per person including welcome cocktail, SUP rental for 3 days and event fee.

'The Paddle the Strait' Event can be booked as an "Event only" or in combination with flight, hotel and rental car. The Club Mistral Travel department will be happy to assist you and to make you an individual offer. Just tick the boxes for the services you need and they will get in touch!

To book this event you can either fill out the form below or visit the website of the organisers Club Mistral or Watersports Training for more information.

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