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| Posted by: sadielady, 07:48 AM GMT on Μάιος 09, 2012 | +0 |
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Sadielady is the alternate handle for Sandiquiz. In this blog, since 2005, I have followed the Ocean rower, Roz Savage, on her travels.
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Sandi I have been watching her regular posts on FB and commenting when I have something worthwhile to say. I would not miss Roz's wrong way row for anything. What an honor to land at the 2012 Olympics in London. Thanks for your Sadielady post. We have traveled lots of miles with Roz.
Oh, Yes, we have travelled lots of miles with Roz, since the end of 2005, right around the World, almost!!
The news this morning.....
WEATHER UPDATE: Unhelpful Easterly winds off the coast of Newfoundland over the weekend. No departure for the OAR team prior to Monday.
I tried to transfer one of Roz's photos. It didn't work. I just hope Roz is not tempting fate with this row. Such horrendous conditions can exist over the Grand Banks and the water is so deep an treacherous. We need to send a lot of prayers in her direction.
Just wanted to add a picture of our pretty Roz.
Some stats on Atlantic rows from West to East reads like this:
Completed: 19
Incomplete: 33
Rowers lost at sea: 5
These are sobering statistics.
Even though the Newfoundlanders have been more than living up to their reputation for friendliness and hospitality, apparently in some quarters there have been mutterings about crazy adventurers heading out on hare-brained missions, only to fail and need rescuing to the great inconvenience, cost, danger, and understandable disgruntlement of the locals.
An interesting tidbit from Roz.
Thought ....Here is something I’ve never had to contend with before – bergy bits. They might sound cute, but these mini-icebergs, calved from larger icebergs further north, are causing no small amount of consternation in the OAR camp.
I happened to look at Roz' twitter feed last night and discovered this tracking map, from our very own WU. I tried to find it on the site, but couldn't - I suppose it's tucked into some corner of new WU, but at least we've got the link now.
If they don't manage to set off next weekend they won't make it for the Olympics
:-(
I hope all works out for Roz. Weather is not something she can change and the Grand Banks are known for their horrible weather. it would be sad if she couldn't make this trip. With the time frame this close I just hope she won't do something foolish. She has been so lucky on all her other rows.
I love this girl for her strength and courage so I will continue to watch.
Roz bump
ICE - Bad news and worse news!
"Today I went out on a plane to check out the ice situation offshore. Despite a favourable forecast, Mother Nature decided to hide her icy secrets in an extensive layer of fog. Despite being in the air for over 5 hours, the only icebergs I was able to see were within half a mile of shore. Those further offshore were shrouded in mists and mystery.
We may be able to try again later in the week, but ....."
From Twitter
Mos and Roz to take Bojangles for a water trial on Quidi Vidi lake today at 2pm.
She went out to see the ice that is holding up the start of the row -
We saw many of these fragments today, drifting downwind of the bigger bergs that spawned them. They came in all kinds of shapes, many of them sharply irregular, sticking up from the ocean in strange shapes like witches’ hats or swans or sharks’ fins.
In a few weeks’ time these fragments will be gone. Maybe even their parents bergs will have melted away. We could see the meltwater pouring off them today in waterfalls cascading down their sides. They are diminishing rapidly.
The Big Berg
But we have an immovable deadline to get to London before the start of the Olympics – or at the latest before I have to go to Yale for the start of the semester in mid-August. The clock is ticking.
From the OAR blog -
DEPARTURE UPDATE: OAR team will not be leaving from St John's tomorrow as hoped
... If you've been following my blog over the last couple of weeks you will have noticed our growing concern about the unusually large quantities of ice off the coast of Newfoundland, largely due to the huge chunk of ice that broke off a Greenland glacier 2 years ago which has now drifted south into Canadian waters, breaking up into a minefield of icebergs as it goes.
Given our immovable deadline of reaching London in time for the start of the Olympics, we unfortunately don't have the option to wait until the ice dissipates, which will take another couple of weeks at least. After much soul searching, it is with regret that we have come to the difficult decision to postpone our row for this year. The chances of hitting ice - and the serious consequences of a punctured hull in freezing North Atlantic waters - meant that the risk to our safety was simply unacceptable.
I weighed up the pros and cons of carrying on with the row. There were 7 points on each side. But when one of the 'con' points is 'risk of death significantly higher than anticipated', you really have to give that one a higher weighting.
One of the most agonising aspects of this decision was the huge amount of support we have received from our many friends and sponsors who have contributed time, energy, money, and provisions to our project. We struggled with this, feeling we owed it to our supporters to complete what we set out to do. But as the chances of a successful completion dwindled, we concluded that our supporters would probably prefer to see us exercise our professional judgement rather than persevere against the odds. We would have loved to share a glorious success story with you, but hope that you will understand and respect our reasons.
Personally, I think they have made the right decision.
There are only 69 days before the opening ceremony, which isn't enough time in the grand scheme of things, and the ice puts their lives at risk.
Just listened to her pod cast. Such a smart decision for so many reasons. Roz loves adventure but she is not going to take any crazy chances. Way to go Roz. You will have more rowing in your life and aonher adventure is just around the corner.
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