Blue skies, calm water and warm sun bid Colin Sanders bon voyage as he set off on his solo row across the Atlantic Ocean. Screaming winds, massive 25-foot waves.” Expecting to ease into big water, the novice ocean rower was suddenly pitched into the Atlantic’s deep end. After training and classroom instruction in navigation, survival, yachtmaster certification and ocean rowing, Sanders hit the gym for strength and flexibility workouts. “It hit me then that I was all alone, that I was in a big ocean … far away from everywhere. After devouring the fruit, heavy German bread, block of parmesan and hard-boiled eggs he’d packed, he survived on packaged or dried food, and drank sea water that he desalinated himself.

Source: thestar April 20, 2018 21:01 UTC