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Nastya preparing to jump off Lady Mary’s whoop, Lada and her friends waiting their turn on deck, Mandurah, Western Australia, 2021

A Russian family Klochkovs have been living on the ocean for eight years on their yacht Lady Mary. During that time the family passed all meridians, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern Oceans, five southern capes, including Cape Horn, the Strait of Magellan, Drake Passage, and twice crossed the equator, faced countless storms and tempests. They explored the least known portion of the Pacific and proved the absence of land marked on modern nautical charts. Andrey and Marina with their two daughters repeated some of the routes of the great explorers – James Cook, Fabian Bellingshausen, Adam Krusenstern. They walked the paths of Charles Darwin, Thor Heyerdahl and Jack London, and followed in the footsteps of the characters of Jules Verne’s book. There is no evidence of other such voyage with children anywhere in the world.The family has set a new world record. When Nastya was almost three, she was diagnosed with bronchial asthma. To cure Nastya without the use of hormones, her parents bought a yacht instead of an apartment and moved to live in the ocean. “When we went along the equator, we swam every day.- says Nastya. - As my dad says, our apartment is small, but our swimming pool is big. We have a rule: when someone is swimming, one person stands on deck and looks out for fins. Although according to statistics, more people die from falling coconuts than from sharks.”

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Mandurah, Australia
Camera: Canon EOS R
Copyright: © Iulia Galushina