By Julie Angus
In 200506, Julie Angus, along with her fiancé Colin, rowed 10,000 kilometers around the Atlantic Ocean, turning into the 1st girl on the earth to trip from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. The 145-day trip gave Angus, a expert scientist, a different standpoint at the ocean. The slow-moving boat turned an surroundings unto itself, attracting barnacles, dorado fish, set off fish, turtles, sharks, whales, birds, and extra, which she used to be capable of notice and record. Angus additionally observed unmistakable symptoms of the ocean’s devastation, with way more plastic bottles, wrappers, toys, and baggage than sharks or different once-common sea existence. 4 cyclones, together with hurricanes, hammered the small boat so intensely that Angus and her better half were not yes they might live on. Rowboat in a storm documents this striking trip in meticulous, dramatic aspect, within the procedure delivering a private list of an awe-inspiring atmosphere, its interesting denizens, and the mounting threats to its life.
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We’d have to stow enough food to last the two of us for up to five months. It would barely fit in the boat. We arrived at the wholesale supermarket Makro armed with a shopping list, or perhaps more accurately a shopping book. After mulling over our nutritional requirements, we’d done our best to itemize what would be required to get us across the ocean in good health. For breakfast we would rotate among four meals: rice pudding, tapioca pudding, cream of wheat, and oatmeal. Lunches would be dried bread with peanut butter, tuna, preserved meat, or cheese (while it lasted).
The Tagus boasted currents so strong that they changed the geography of the river to form a partially inverted delta. The raised triangle of sediment that usually collects at a river’s mouth was absent. Now the incoming current—intensified by strong tides that accompanied the nearly full moon—was still close to its peak power; it would be impossible to row against. Within a few hours, however, this great force would work in our favour. After storing the last of the food, repacking gear to make it fit in the cramped compartments, and filling water containers, we were ready to go.
General delivery at the post office wouldn’t work because many items were being shipped by courier. The Canadian Embassy in Lisbon flatly refused to accept anything on our behalf. Eventually, we found a hotel that would accept our packages and, after a longer search, we found Mario Almeida, a friend of a friend who lives in Lisbon, who would do the same. “You must come to the airport to pick them up,” the shipping clerk said when the carbon-fibre oars donated to us by the Australian company Croker Oars arrived.