(CNN) — They’ve already rowed across the Atlantic, flown over Australia with paramotors and traveled to some of the world’s most remote places.
Known as the Blue Pole Project powered by Quintet Earth, the voyage, likely to take around six weeks, will see the pair set sail from the UK, via the Canary Islands and the Azores archipelago, to the point in the Atlantic Ocean furthest away from land in any direction.
The Turner Twins, who are scheduled to depart towards the end of June, will travel on a 12-meter yacht fitted with a prototype hydrogen fuel cell in a bid to put the spotlight on hydrogen fuel technology, as well as ocean advocacy.
Research expedition
Ross and Hugo Turner (right) will be setting sail to the Atlantic Pole of Inaccessibility at the end of June.
Turner Twins
They”ll also rely on hydrogen, which is created using renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, to power all of their equipment.
The pair, who’ve already traveled to four of the Poles of Inaccessibility, are collecting data for Plymouth University’s International Marine Litter Research Unit that will be used to help develop a clean up strategy for marine plastic pollution
“The core of what we’re trying to do is discover something new,” Ross Turner tells CNN Travel. “To be curious and use new technology and science to make our trips more sustainable.
“And if we can prove that they [the new technologies] are more sustainable in these extreme environments, then it should give a good example for everyone back in cities and normal life that the new sustainable technologies are very much user friendly every day.”
The Turner Twins, who haven’t been on a major expedition since 2019, say they’re hugely excited about their upcoming adventure.
Their adventures together began at a young age. The pair say they spent much of their time “getting lost in their garden” during their younger years, before they were old enough to explore Dartmoor National Park, a vast moorland in Devon, southwest England close to the home they grew up in.
However, it was a freak accident that led to Hugo Turner breaking his neck and subsequently having neck reconstruction at the age of 17 that set them on the path to becoming professional adventurers.
“I think for us, life got put into perspective,” says Ross Turner. “And we just…
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