An exhausted Patrick Bol on board the ‘Year of Zayed’ trimaran. The rower said the team succeeded in highlighting plastic pollution in the oceans. Courtesy: Row4Ocean
An exhausted Patrick Bol on board the ‘Year of Zayed’ trimaran. The rower said the team succeeded in highlighting plastic pollution in the oceans. Courtesy: Row4Ocean

Environment

Dubai rowers 'gutted' as transatlantic challenge ends in failure

Crippling damage to Dh1.8 million boat's rudder forces four-man team to abandon world record bid

Nick Webster
Nick Webster

January 08, 2019