Mick is available for speaking engagements across the globe.
With a wealth of information, stories and anecdotes, derived from over 400 days at sea on some of the harshest ocean environments on the globe in a rowing boat, Mick is happy to speak to any audience. If it’s inspiration, motivation or simply adventure that you’re looking for contact Mick to discuss arranging a personal presentation for you, your event or organisation.
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Testimonies
"Mick Dawson is the type of adventurer who built the California West, the dreamer of impossible dreams who earns in most daring fashion the right to pass through the mighty Golden Gate into San Francisco. He takes us with him on a voyage that is equal parts conquest of nature, marvel of the sea's cruel beauty, exploration of our own dreams and our strength to realize them... with a grateful measure of good humor."
Paul Oliva:
On-the-waterfront columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
"Your presentation at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park was outstanding. For anyone with an appetite for adventure, your voyage across the Pacific, powered only by your own strength and determination at the oars, represents the pinnacle of what it means to reach for a dream. Your account of this epic journey remind us just how beautiful and fragile are the oceans that connect us all."
Howard Levitt
Acting Superintendent
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Mick is an engaging speaker with just the right mix of humor, insight, and narrative. To vicariously experience his epic journey is truly inspiring. If you ever had a dream, Mick will first show you how a dream can become an ambition, and then inspire you to believe that what you thought was out of your reach is attainable through perseverance, determination, and faith. Through the telling of his story, subtle yet powerful messages emerge on the themes of partnership, creative problem-solving, goal-setting, nurturing strengths, and managing challenges. Mick’s story is a testament to what the human spirit can achieve and is an apt metaphor for any area of personal or organizational growth. Our students and faculty were entranced and enthused by Mick’s informative and entertaining talk.
Percy L. Abram PhD
Head of School
Gateway Elementary
Santa Cruz, California
"Mick Dawson’s 189 Days presentation provides audiences of all ages and walks a compelling adventure for the armchair traveler. Intertwining his whimsical ‘Brit’ humour with glimpses of sober reality as he tells the tale of a near 7000 mile voyage across the mighty North Pacific.
The tale embeds all aspects of an instant adventure classic with edge of seat provoking near misses, gut wrenching moments of sadness and gloom mixed with copious amounts of wonderment. The presentation transports the audience to a place so few have spent as much time in, isolated, two against nature in all her majestic fury, to her gentler kinder side, leaving crowds not only entertained, but stimulated and educated and wanting to know more."
Erik Simonsen
Marine Photographer
H2oShots.com