Ex-SAS man ready to embark on groundbreaking solo row across Atlantic
A former SAS soldier is fulfilling a decades-long dream by rowing solo across the Atlantic. Ian Rivers, 55, will set off from New York on Monday, weather permitting, and will spend around three months on his own rowing the roughly 3,500 miles back to St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. “Doing the row solo is the ultimate challenge really because it’s just me with my boat against the elements, the conditions,” he told the PA news agency. “I’m hugely, hugely looking forward to actually getting under way.” The seed for the idea of the solo row was sown back in the 1980s when, early o...
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