Hearing loss marathon runner, Jamie Flanagan, recently completed the 160 mile Ocean Floor Race ultra-marathon in Egypt in just 73 hours, wearing the Aquaris hearing aid from Siemens Hearing Instruments. Jamie, who is from Edinburgh, successfully ran the race through the Sahara desert with 12 other contestants battling temperatures reaching 38oC, lows of 9oC, high winds and sandstorms.
Jamie took part in the ultimate running endurance challenge and selected Aquaris to take with him to withstand the harsh conditions of the desert. Aquaris is a fully waterproof, dust-proof and sweat-proof digital hearing instrument - the only one of its kind in the world. “Only Aquaris could have stood up to the kinds of extreme conditions I was running in,” commented Jamie.
Jamie Flanagan wore Aquaris, the waterproof, dust-proof and sweat-proof digital hearing instrument from Siemens Hearing Instruments, to complete the Ocean Floor Race ultramarathon in Egypt.
Previously a musician, Jamie lost his hearing to Wengeners Granulomatosis, an auto-immune disease that also caused partial facial paralysis. He ran the Ocean Floor Race fundraising for the Lauren Currie Twilight Foundation charity.
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Siemens Hearing Instruments Ltd (Crawley, West Sussex) provides a comprehensive range of digital hearing instruments and software, patient management systems and audiology equipment to the National Health Service, independent retail dispensers and national chains in the UK. It is the UK operation of Siemens Audiology Solutions, a business unit of the Siemens Healthcare Sector; Siemens Audiology Solutions has been at the forefront of audiological innovation for over 130 years and is the world’s market leader in the design and manufacture of audiological products. For more information about Siemens, visit the Siemens Expo Page on AudiologyOnline.
