The Ocean Brothers, Greg Bailey and Jude Massey (half-brothers) spent 53 days rowing in memory of their dad, Peter Massey, who died in 2015 with Jude becoming the youngest person to row across an ocean in a team of two setting a Guinness World Record and raising £82,000 for skin cancer research. They were also the first to complete the crossing on a vegan diet.
The route started in Gran Canaria and took 53 days to reach Barbados wasn’t all plain sailing. A broken watermaker, which turns salt water into freshwater for drinking, meant they had to hand-pump water to survive for five hours a day from day four onwards. And then there was the time they capsized and spent 20 minutes in the water at dusk. Despite hallucinating, being hit in the face by a flying fish and "extreme back pain" from steering and rowing at the same time, the two brothers continued on.