Shekhdar Southern Ocean Row–Postscript: Ever want to know what it is like to be rolled 3 times in a 26-foot rowboat, in the Southern Ocean? Jim Shekhdar got in touch with our friends at ExplorersWeb (face it…there’s no place on earlth that is truly isolated) to give them a brief account of the bloody end to his ambitious rowing marathon:

“I was involved in an enormously violent pitchpole which damaged my head, neck and most importantly, the front hatch. Apart from that, everything was wiped off the top of the boat apart from the anemometer and the iridium aerial, so to have gone on would have been a little bit foolish, I think. It was a long 4 hour. I took 2 of them in the proverbial washing machine position with four-point harness and a helmet and trying to stop the blood flow from my head. Basically just going around in circles, it was quite surreal, really. I was sitting upright, the world was going around me as the boat in and rolled over.”

Hard to blame the guy for calling it quits…..