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The ocean rowers - and the Press!
Agu 13, 2004 10: 54 EST
Yes it was a thriller when Pink Lady was shattered by Hurricane Alex this past weekend. The media agreed. Check out the insane coverage the guys got! (Link section). It helped too that one of the crew members was a BBC reporter...
So how are the other souls out there doing?
Mick called home at last - well, sort off
One of the rowers out there, Golden Gate rower Mick Dawson, has been at sea the longest; about 2 and a half months. He is making steady progress but has only just crossed the halfway point (end July). Mick left Choshi, Japan at 02:10 GMT May 6th 2004 in his second attempt to reach Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Worst is that his sat phone stopped working and his home team didn't hear from him in a month! Until a few days ago: The message from Mick was delivered through a skipper named Shakhid from a passing Bangladeshi vessel! No more phone/text messages to Mick in other words, but he will use any chance to stay in touch through any ship he may meet.
Mick basically said "hi," that he's still out there, and has company of dolphins and whales: ‘See you in San Francisco the first weeks of October!’ were his parting words to Captain Shakhid to be passed on to friends and family.
More silence
Another rower with comm trouble is Andreas Rommel. Still no word from him, although we can see that he is moving from his GPS transmissions.
Anne and Emmanuel are hanging in there
Anne Quemere is back on track, battered but hopeful: "Under cloudy skies, I ventured outside and resumed rowing. If the wind keeps turning SW, I shall be the happiest oarswoman of them all after my five bad days."
Emmanuel is in the same frame of mood: "Inside the boat, all is wet, impossible to make anything comfortable. I slept 3 small hours and rowed 18H."
Pink lady set off from St John’s, Newfoundland on June 30 to break the world record for the fastest north Atlantic row from Canada . Crew members Mark Stubbs, 40, from Poole in Dorset, with Jonathan Gornall, 48, from London, Pete Bray, 48, from South Wales and John Wills, 33, from Surrey were rescued yesterday when their boat was split in two by Hurricane Alex.
To Anne Quemere one of the most beautiful experiences in the world is that of a crossing an ocean. Four years ago she decided to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In December 2002, she rowed out into the open sea, leaving from Canary Islands and arriving in Guadeloupe 56 days later solo and without assistance, breaking the women’s record previously held by Tori Murden who made the crossing in 81 days. Now she is back, to repeat the crossing West to East.
Emmanuel Coindre capsized his row boat outside the coast of US last year. He called from his sat phone requesting help sitting on top of the boats hull. Emmanuel is now back again on his quest to became the first person to row the Atlantic solo three times.
His earlier achievements actually already involve three crossings; two in a row boat and one on a watercycle.
Andreas Rommel plans to become the first German in history to row Atlantic W-E from Cape Cod (USA) to UK. Andreas is last out of the rowers and has not yet done any dispatches.
Image of Golden Gate rower Mick Dawson, courtesy Mick Dawson.
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