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Suicidal idiots row across the Atlantic ocean in 44 days.
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A team of rowers was celebrating Monday after breaking the 114-year-old speed record for crossing the Atlantic in a rowing boat.
The four men battled waves the size of three-story buildings, an outbreak of food poisoning and numerous storms to row from New York to the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern coast of England.
The trip took 44 days -- 11 days faster than the record set in 1896 by Norwegian fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson.
Its the oldest speed record in history, said Leven Brown, 37, captain of the 23-foot (seven-meter) vessel, which reached the finish line at 4:00pm local time Saturday.
Were exhausted and exuberant all at the same time. Some of the waves we saw were 14 meters tall, like a huge house. In a little boat like ours, anything about over five feet, nine inches looks enormous, he said.
The team dined on a diet of freeze-dried chili con carne and ate 600 candy bars between them in the four weeks they were at sea -- roughly five-and-a-half bars a day each.
Brown, from Edinburgh, and his team -- Ray Carroll, 33, from Galway, Ireland; Don Lennox, 41, from Glasgow; and Livar Nysted, 39, from the Faroe Islands, northwest of Scotland, hoped their efforts would raise thousands of dollars for charity.
There have been 30 attempts to break the record since 1896, with eight people losing their lives.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/intern...crossing_q1nZtRlDkJJnhG9ldXUnCM#ixzz0vTBcPMYK
A team of rowers was celebrating Monday after breaking the 114-year-old speed record for crossing the Atlantic in a rowing boat.
The four men battled waves the size of three-story buildings, an outbreak of food poisoning and numerous storms to row from New York to the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern coast of England.
The trip took 44 days -- 11 days faster than the record set in 1896 by Norwegian fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson.
Its the oldest speed record in history, said Leven Brown, 37, captain of the 23-foot (seven-meter) vessel, which reached the finish line at 4:00pm local time Saturday.
Were exhausted and exuberant all at the same time. Some of the waves we saw were 14 meters tall, like a huge house. In a little boat like ours, anything about over five feet, nine inches looks enormous, he said.
The team dined on a diet of freeze-dried chili con carne and ate 600 candy bars between them in the four weeks they were at sea -- roughly five-and-a-half bars a day each.
Brown, from Edinburgh, and his team -- Ray Carroll, 33, from Galway, Ireland; Don Lennox, 41, from Glasgow; and Livar Nysted, 39, from the Faroe Islands, northwest of Scotland, hoped their efforts would raise thousands of dollars for charity.
There have been 30 attempts to break the record since 1896, with eight people losing their lives.
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