These are busy days in ocean rowing. As the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge is finishing up and the Bouvet Guyane Solo Atlantic Rowing Race 2012 is getting started, an attempt at breaking an ocean rowing record as failed, ending with the rescue of six rowers from a life raft raft after their boat, the Sara G, capsized and sank. The six men, five from Britain and one from Ireland, were rowing from Morocco to Barbados in the “Atlantic Odyssey challenge,” an attempt to row across the Atlantic in thirty days or less. After 27 days and still 520 miles from their destination, their boat was capsized by large waves. The a Panamanian container ship, the Nord Taipei, was diverted to pick up the rowers after their EPIRB signal was picked up by Falmouth Coastguard. Thanks to Alaric Bond for passing along the news.
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I would’ve thought they would all have escort boats alongside.
I don’t know much about ocean rowing but from what I have seen the boats get so spread out that it would be very difficult for a reasonable number of boats to track a group of boats across the Atlantic.
In the case of single boats, they seem to be by their lonesome, to use a technical term.