{"id":965,"date":"2010-09-12T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=965"},"modified":"2010-10-02T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:54:30","slug":"race-raises-18000-for-monk-seal-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/12\/race-raises-18000-for-monk-seal-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"Race raises $18,000 for monk seal rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-966\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-966\" title=\"Team swimmer Marjorie Boor\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/marjorie-in-wave-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/marjorie-in-wave-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/marjorie-in-wave-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/marjorie-in-wave-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/marjorie-in-wave-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team swimmer Marjorie Boor. \u00a9 Marine Mammal Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The swim across the Maui Channel to raise funds for a dedicated rehabilitation unit for the critically-endangered Hawaiian monk seal has raised\u00a0 $18,130, according to Cheryl Reiss of the Marine Mammal Center.<\/p>\n<p>The all-female team of six from the Center\u00a0 joined 52 other teams and 20 solo swimmers from around the world in a daring crossing of the Au Au channel, the MMC reported in a post-race statement. The channel is well known for dangers to swimmers such as swift currents, tiger sharks, and the Portuguese Man O\u2019 War.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first Maui Channel Swim took place in 1972 and since then, it has grown to become the longest open water relay swim in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The MMC swim team &#8220;endured the roughest race conditions in 17 years,&#8217; said Reiss, &#8217;10 foot swells, 30 mph winds, and 12 foot tiger shark sightings that caused some teams to quit.\u00a0 The team finished the race in an impressive 7:30:09.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information and photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinemammalcenter.org\/what-you-can-do\/events\/team-from-the-marine-mammal.html\">Hawaiian Monk Seal Fundraising Swim!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinemammalcenter.org\/about-us\/organization-information\/awareness-campaigns\/save-the-hawaiian-monk-seal.html\">Proposed Hawaiian monk seal facility at Keahole Point, Kona, Hawaii<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swim across the Maui Channel to raise funds for a dedicated rehabilitation unit for the critically-endangered Hawaiian monk seal has raised\u00a0 $18,130, according to Cheryl Reiss of the Marine Mammal Center. The all-female team of six from the Center\u00a0 joined 52 other teams and 20 solo swimmers from around the world in a daring &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/12\/race-raises-18000-for-monk-seal-rehab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Race raises $18,000 for monk seal rehab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,9,10,30],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-rescue","tag-rehabilitation","tag-release","tag-main-hawaiian-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}