The team covered the 745-mile (1,200km) distance between Romania and Georgia in nine days, 18 hours
A crew including a university lecturer has broken the world record for rowing across the Black Sea.
The team covered the 745-mile distance between Romania and Georgia in nine days, 18 hours, beating the previous record of 11 days, six hours.The crew plan to get together to celebrate their achievement later in the year "I found that, as did the others, and kind of applied for a position within the team," said Dr Longman, a previous rower at Cambridge"Having the opportunity to see it first-hand from a boat seemed like a great idea."The crew did not sleep for much more than an hour at a time during the nine-day challengeThe team rowed with a two-hour shift pattern, day and night, meaning they did not sleep for more than 60 or 70 minutes during the row.
"But there were really beautiful moments as well, like the the night sky, for example, when it was clear."And we have dolphins swim next to the boat most days as well."He said it had been a "fantastic feeling" to achieve the target but added the situation in the region had grown "incredibly sad" since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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