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Big thanks to @attitudemag & @mattcainwriter for the cover feature in this months mag, out today, grab a copy!!
Back rigging on the deck of the boat running tools for the boys on the bottom sweating profusely is an understatement, temps nearing 50c! #saudigav
Saturation Diving Bell locked off the main system and heading over the side of the vessel to the bottom, inside there are 3 baggy arsed divers ready fumble around in the mud for 6 hours #satdiving #divegavdive
Time to decompress back to the land of the living!
Just finished this epic read on Tim Hewitt's legendary 8 time finish of the Iditarod Trail, his final run took him 19 days that's a staggering 80km+ everyday on foot through the Alaskan wilderness! 7 months to go for me and my turn at Iditasport 2018, looking forward to starting my build up and training block after I get back from the Middle East in the next couple of weeks! #Iditasport2018
Another offshore sunrise 🌅
You've not heard much out of me as I'm stuck inside this small dark chamber for the last week, currently stored at 36m diving at 50m working on a few pipelines in Saudi Arabia, my bell partners are a fellow Irish man and a Kazakh/Russian, the diving isn't very epic, muddy bottom, chemical suits and chicken fish trying to take me out all the while giving it big licks on the sledge hammer taking off pulling heads #divegavdive
Trying to remember how all this works! #satdiving @peakdynamics
My current home for now! Bit bigger than the last boat I was on 😜
My fall back plan is to get a dog, make an Instagram account about it and then coast off his success @tobyonhenrystreet #dogstagram
'The cowards won't show and the weak will die' ~ Laddy Shaw . . New big thing for me is the iconic Iditasport race in Alaska. 1,000 Miles/1,700km on foot along the Iditarod Historic Trail, February 19th 2018. Read more about it on my website, link in my bio #Iditasport2018
Flying @aerlingus this month, check out a little piece I wrote on Rowing the Atlantic solo in the latest issue of Cara Magazine @benduffyphoto
#tb to My little @hilleberg_the_tentmaker secured to the ice with 8 @blackdiamond ice screws, I wasn't going anywhere amidst the mountains of #Siberia on the ice of #LakeBaikal March 2016
2k hero swim today with the Galway Bay swimmers, water is a balmy 15c, summer in #Galway
Today speaking at @servicesourceinc doing 2 sessions with the staff and had a great welcome from Mike Naughton and Padraic Flood with a lovely gift. #talkgavtalk #servicesource
Great to catch up with @poleary87 from Wexford in SF, Paddy started trail running only a few years ago and is a pure natural, @thenorthface picked him up last year and now he is taking on the world, great to see the fellow Irish 🍀 making their mark, give him a follow and watch out for him this year in @utmbmontblanc CCC

Gavan Hennigan is an Irish Extreme Environment Athlete who hails from Galway... Read More

On February 19th 2018 Gavan will take part in the historic foot race ‘Iditasport’ in Alaska.. Read More