More people have made it to outer space than accomplished this crew’s mission: rowing 3,807 miles, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean.
“In fact, more people have actually been to the moon than have rowed from mainland Europe to mainland South America,” expedition captain Mathew Bennett says with a broad smile.
Bennett’s team of five amateurs plans to row 24 hours a day, rotating through two-hour shifts, in what they hope will become a record setting 52-day journey to the shores of Venezuela to raise money for charity.
Their attempt has inspired awe and even encouragement from the International Space Station. As hundreds gathered to watch Bennett and his British crew depart from the coast of Portugal on Sunday, British astronaut Tim Peake delivered a message from the final frontier above.
“Good luck to the boys in the boat below,” he tweeted. “The biggest test of your lives starts today.”
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