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The first ocean to be deliberately rowed across was the Atlantic by Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo, two Norwegian-born Americans, in June 1896.The pair left Battery Park, Manhattan, on 6 June 1896, arriving on the Isles of Scilly, 55 days and 13 hours later, having covered 3,250 nautical miles (3,740 mi; 6,020 km).
Mick Dawson (born in June 1964 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England) [1] is a former Royal Marine Commando, film maker, professional sailor and adventurer.He is best known for rowing the Pacific Ocean with friend and fellow ocean rower Chris Martin in a new state of the art vessel, Bojangles, which Mick built.
Frank Samuelsen (26 February 1870 – 1946) and George Harbo (14 September 1864 – 1909) were Norwegian-Americans who in 1896 became the first people ever to row across an ocean. Their time record for rowing the North Atlantic Ocean was not broken for 114 years, and then by four rowers instead of two.
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Ditton is the 53rd woman to row the Atlantic Ocean, the 64th woman to row any ocean, the 2nd woman to row the mid-Pacific Ocean solo and the mid-Pacific route's current speed record-holder. Ditton was introduced to the sport of Ocean Rowing in 2008, by an Olympic hopeful rower from Copenhagen .
He first made the headlines after his solo trans-Atlantic voyage in 2005 when he became the first and currently only person to row from America to England solo and the youngest person to row any ocean solo. [2] Hicks has rowed and paddled over 7,000 miles on ocean expeditions since 2005. Over 6,000 miles and 220 days alone at sea.
Leven Brown, British sportsman, ocean rower. Leven Brown (born 14 August 1972) [1] is a British Ocean Rower who has held five Guinness World Records. [2] [3] He along with his crew Don Lennox, Livar Nysted and Ray Carroll also held the world record for "longest distance rowed in 24h in an ocean rowing boat" at 118 miles, is the first and thus far only in the sport ever to have held North and ...
Jim Shekhdar (born 13 November 1946) [1] is a British ocean rower and was the first person to complete a solo unassisted non-stop crossing of the Pacific Ocean. Career [ edit ]