Watch: Episode 7 from Swim4TheOcean

By Live Ocean
20/02/2026
Read time: 1 min
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Episode 7 of the Swim4TheOcean video series is live on Youtube, bringing you inside Jono’s epic mission, with never-before-seen footage.

This next episode, Jono is joined by Olympian Moss Burmester before a special orca encounter as he tracks along Pāpāmoa Beach.

He tackles adverse currents as he pushes on towards East Cape and shares behind-the-scenes insights into his nutrition and the 9,000 calories a day required to keep him fuelled.

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