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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).
Anders Johan Svedlund (1926 in Mellösa, Sweden – 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand), was a Swedish born, naturalized New Zealand ocean rowing pioneer. Anders performed 2 of 14 Historic ocean rows listed by Ocean Rowing Society, the official Guinness Adjudicator for ocean rowing. He was the first to row the Indian Ocean, the first to row on the ...
The Ocean Rowing Society (from 2006 – International) was founded in 1983 by Kenneth Frank Crutchlow, with support of an ocean rower Peter Bird. The reason, that urged them to do it, was a letter from a French journalist, asking if there existed a list of British ocean rowers.
He finally returned to England, where he was permitted to play water polo again, but was banned for life one more time after throwing a referee into the water. [3] He is now married to Nina Shekhdar ( née Hlochova) and has two young daughters: Natalie (born 2008) and Alice (born 2011).
She holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. [3] She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life (2007–2009) at sea in a 23-foot rowboat.
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 ...
Fiann Paul (born Paweł Pietrzak; 15 August 1980) is a Polish-Icelandic explorer known for his exploits in ocean rowing. [1]Paul is the fastest ocean rower (2016) and the most record-breaking ocean rower (2017).
Shinobi Life began as a series of one-shots published in Akita Shoten's shōjo manga magazine Princess in 2005 and 2006. [2] A full-scale serialization began in the August 2006 issue of Princess on July 6, 2006, [3] concluding in the April 2012 issue on March 6, 2012. [4] [5] A bonus spin-off story was published in the May 2012 issue on April 6 ...