How Four 22-Year-Old SA Uni Students Set A Rowing World Record [Video]

We’re happy that you nailed your first Stand Up Paddleboard session at the Waterfront, but these guys have you beat.

They have most people beat, because the Mad4Waves team set a world record for the youngest four-man team to row unaided across the Atlantic.

According to Carte Blanche, who covered the story this past Sunday, “fewer people have rowed across the Atlantic than have reached the summit of Everest, journeyed to the North Pole or ventured into space”.

The team consists of four 22-year-old mates who have been rowing together since their school days. Take it away, Derek ‘there goes my Sunday’ Watts:

Well played, gentlemen.

For the really geographically challenged, this is the mission they completed:

If you want to find out more about the causes they support, you can visit the Mad4Waves site.

[source:carteblanche]

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