Paolo Casoni is a surgeon, former professor at the University of Parma, currently freelance.
For three years he taught emergency medicine courses on board for crews departing for the Atlantic Odyssey.
Owner and skipper of his own boats, he has more than eighty thousand miles to his credit with six Atlantic crossings (two complete Atlantic circuits), a half-world trip up to Fiji and several ocean crossings and every corner of the mare nostrum from Turkey to North Africa up to in Gibraltar.
He loves sailing with his wife Cecilia, his partner in life and at sea, and with his children Matilde and Gregorio, who have taken their first steps on the deck of a sailboat.