‘Paddle2Live’ Expedition Arrives Home August 19 Public Attendance Encouraged

Aug. 15, 2012 - PRLog -- NEWPORT BEACH, CA - After 10 days at sea, travelling 300+ nautical miles the Paddle2Live™ and Junior Watermen Academy crew will arrive home to Newport Harbor on Sunday, August 19th at 2:30 p.m. Friends, family and members of the paddling community are invited to join them at the turning basin and paddle to the Newport Sea Base, and to the celebration to follow.

The expedition is part of a joint effort by Paddle2Live™ and The Newport Aquatic Center(501 C 3), which joined up to launch the Junior Waterman Academy, a cross-water sport program whose goal is to educate and train young individuals in a variety of water sport disciplines and assist in implementing those skills in a variety of expeditions across the United States and internationally.

The expedition, lead by Paddle2Live founder and cancer survivor Jack Marshall Shimko, will departed from Channel Islands National Park, Point Conception, CA, on August 10th they will paddle through the Channel Islands before reaching Newport Beach.

Shimko originally founded Paddle2Live (http://www.paddle2live.org), a non-profit cancer fundraiser, to raise money and awareness for advanced cancer research and treatment. “It’s great to be able to use my own survival to inspire young people to get out, to get active and to live their dreams.”

The teen members of The Junior Waterman Expedition are Jack Bark, 18; Sofia DeWolfe,17; Cory Fults,19; Bruce Schwartz, 18; Cora Wolfe,18; and Mikayla Hart, 17.

A welcome home celebration party will follow the arrival at The Newport Beach Sea Base, 1931 West Coast Highway at 3 P.M. in Newport Beach, and the public is invited to join the group for this festive and philanthropic night. For more information please visit www.paddle2live.org. Like them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/paddle2live; follow them on http://www.instagram.com @paddle2live #paddle2live; subscribe to them at http://www.youtube.com/paddle2live.

“The generous support of Aloha Printing, AquaTech, Avante Garde Imports, Bark Paddleboards, Bear Flag Fish Company, Birns & Sawyer, Buoyweather, Canon, Clairmont Camera, Glaceau/Vitamin Water, Haute Cakes, Hurley, Kennedy/Marshall Company, Kovach Marketing, Maui Jim, Newport Aquatic Center, Newport Sea Base, Paddle Surf Warehouse, QuickBlade, Raw Elements, Riviera, San Clemente Website Design Smuggler, Smuggler, SUP Core have made this event possible,” Shimko noted.

In addition, volunteers, logistical support, gear, food, fuel and charitable donations are always welcomed. Online donations and product/gear donations will be accepted on www.newportaquaticcenter.com, please clearly add “Paddle2Live 2012” to the memo line of all checks.

About Paddle2Live
Paddle2Live™ is an adventure based brand that uses water sports and the ocean to better the world, promote health, fitness, educate and inspire young individuals to lead healthy, active and adventurous lives. Jack Marshall Shimko, Newport Beach native and founder of Paddle2Live™ was diagnosed with cancer three years ago on his 29th birthday. He chose to fight his cancer with his favorite sport of paddle boarding, to date paddling thousands of miles in the open ocean in order to raise awareness and hundreds of thousands of dollars for foundations such as Livestrong, UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the John Wayne Cancer Foundation and the Newport Aquatic Center.

About Newport Beach Aquatic Center (NAC)
The Newport Aquatic Center was founded in 1982 and built in 1987 as a non-profit corporation offering the public unique opportunities in the Olympic water sports of rowing, canoeing, kayaking and outrigger canoe competition. The NAC is a stand-alone non-profit organization (501 C 3) and is managed by a Board of Directors made up of NAC members. The Center is run by an Executive Director and staff, the trainers and instructors are some of the most qualified professionals in their area of expertise—former and current Olympians, decorated racers and acclaimed teachers, inspired to evoke the exhilaration of physical performance while maintaining a high standard of safety.