The 1st deaf person to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic - Mo O'Brien (Sponsored by ReSound)

Описание: Fun fact: More people have climbed Mount Everest than rowed across the Atlantic Ocean.

Mo O’Brien, the first deaf person to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Sponsored by ReSound, Mo and her team have ranked 24th in this year’s Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, after docking at Antigua on January 31, finishing a gruelling race against 39 other teams.

Rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean is an incredibly tough undertaking for anyone, let alone a person with a profound hearing loss such as Mo O’Brien. So having the right kit and hearing tech was essential to create the best possible environment for Mo. En route to setting the world record, Mo relied on the newest ReSound high-performance hearing aids throughout the race.

“I’m so immensely proud that I’ve achieved this extremely hard challenge, and to experience this with my daughter and my teammates is the icing on the cake,” said Mo. “Out on the ocean, it was incredibly helpful that my hearing aids enabled me to focus on rowing and communicating, day and night, and I could relax with music, without feeling limited by my hearing loss.”

Encapsulating the Hear More, Do More, Be More spirit
“We’re happy and amazed with the new historic milestone, which Mo and her team have achieved,” said Christina Molt-Wengel, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, GN Hearing. “Despite her profound hearing loss, Mo has not only set a world record, she has also inspired us with her courage and determination. Mo perfectly encapsulates our ‘hear more, do more, be more’ spirit and the idea of healthy hearing.”

Reframing hearing loss
Mo’s spectacular achievement shows that hearing loss and wearing hearing aids need to be reframed as common, rather than a daunting limitation stopping people doing what they want. By wearing hearing aids such as ReSound’s high-performance hearing aids, Mo successfully navigated the typical hearing loss disadvantages at sea. With her hearing solution, she was able to pay attention to important factors: she could hear sounds clearly in every direction, get a true sense of space, filter out background noise in all weather, and better communicate with her teammates.

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