Day 21

“It’s just gone 5am in the Atlantic, I just wanted to share this short video which will be of rowing tonight, unusually instead of being a night full of a gazillion stars to look up at, we’ve had nearly 100% cloud cover so absolute blackness no stars no horizon, nothing. the only things we can see… this video is taken from the front rowing position… is our lights, I’ve actually got Luke between me and those lights but you can hardly see him. We can’t see the white ends of the oars. The nav light on the left shows bearing and the nav light on the right shows our latitude, longitude and speed so you get a sensation that the boat is floating in mid-air both Luke and I felt a sensation of the boat spinning which it isn’t, losing your sense of sight, your other sense are heightened so feeling the water, feeling the waves and the stroke through your hands of the oars, feeling the wind on the side of my ear so I know we are not spinning as the wind is coming in the same direction over my right shoulder every time I take a stroke and then the smell of absolute nothingness, the sea doesn’t smell of anything, it doesn’t smell of any human smells it doesn’t even smell of salt it just smells warm and damp, if that’s even smell, a really strange and surreal feeling the only other thing you can see if the phosphorescence off the blades four little small circles of phosphorescence disappearing behind his which makes it look quite magical like some strange flying carpet that’s tonight’s rowing experience. Invictus Atlantic, over and out.”