Wayne Ingram to enter life raft survival to raise funds for hospital
by Wayne Ingram on 19 Feb 2015
Wayne Ingram fundraiser - life raft survival program Wayne Ingram
Between 18th-25th May 2015 I will spend 7 days and nights in a life raft in Portland Marina, Portland Harbour, Dorset. This is a twofold exercise, firstly to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital families centre, and secondly to allow Professor Mike Tipton and his team at Plymouth University conduct experiments on me.
The reason I want to raise money for GOSH is to help children from the UK as my previous fundraising over the last ten years plus has been for foreign children. This has never been on the back of some tabloid story but by visiting them in their own country, experiencing the hardships and constraints they witness, inevitably raising money for the cause, knowing it will be used in the right place at the right time. Please see my website for a more personnel look, www.wayneingram.com.
Professor Tipton and his team have become involved as they want to gain valuable information from my actions, so I will enter the life raft as in a survival situation. I will only have a small grab bag, allowing me to take a small amount of clothing and only one days food and water, so forcing me to survive the remainder.
The information my body generates before, during and after will then allow his team to understand how one copes in a survival situation, potentially allowing others caught within a sea rescue, or mountain rescue to make the right decision, allowing them to survive.
This has never been attempted before.
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