After the summit of K2, the “challenge” is now with the depths and the fearsome currents of the Strait of Messina: another “company” for Massimiliano OssiniRai conductor of one morning, who On Monday at 7.30 he will try his hand at the crossing between the Gorges of Scilla and Cariddi, diving at the foot of the pylonfrom Punta Faro, to land on the Calabrian beach in front of Cannitello, to Villa San Giovanni.
The initiative was born from an idea of the conductor – which recently in Taormina presented the Gala of the Taobuk Festival And the celebratory event of the Coast Guard – promoted with the crossing association of the Strait, with the Italian Paralympic Committee and with the Coast Guard that celebrates 160 years. Together with him there will be fifteen Paralympic swimmersthe Olympic canoeist Giovanni De Gennaro, a former oncological patient, Irene, – who will celebrate his tenth crossing after defeating the breast cancer – and the president of Coldiretti Lazio David Granieri. The coast guard will follow the crossing with ten specialized operators, helicopter and pilot.
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