World-first as man crosses Atlantic Ocean unaided on paddle board

Doesn't sound very fun.

>>120248
Any history teacher that says, "The oceans were barriers.", has just been proven wrong twice.
The Pacific was crossed in the '70s, look up Kon-Tiki.

>>120591
Just because it's a barrier doesn't mean it's impassable.

>>120255
I know. 3 months at sea on a tiny raft.

All the tech made it possible anyways. I dont wannna trash they guy because I would probably die in the first week, I'm sure it took skill and an athletic excellence. But he had a nice cozy cabin and plenty of food. All he really had to do was paddle at a medium pace. I hope someone else does it faster just to piss him off.

>>120248
he did not store 3 months of food and fresh water in that tiny cabin. what the fuck did he eat?
>inb4 he fished! :D:P:):D huuurrrr

>>120804
I'd bet money he really did fish.

Also, you can distill drinkable water from seawater with a simple plastic bottle. But there are easier methods with some modern devices. Like so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCtIqqFVjJg

>>120591
Just because you can safely cross them doesn't mean you'll end up somewhere safe
Or anywhere at all.

It's like the difference between navigating a stranger's homw in pitch black and navigating our own home.

So, until you get through and start making maps, it is a barrier, just like a forest would be

>>120804
3 months of dehydrated food doesn't take that much room. Look up soylent.

>>120804
why couldnt he fish? Its the ocean...

>>120954
Ocean fish are different than the eating fish you get in the store.

>>121072
Oh i forgot about the freshwater/saltwater thing.

>>121072
It's been filleted and rinsed with freshwater. The size would be more of an issue than the salt.

>>121085
He might have been too pussy to attract sharks

>>121089
I wouldn't want to catch fish on that thing either.

>>120954
>>121072
>fish

Also, the fish wouldn't provide anywhere near enough carbs for the work he was doing -- he'd need to maintain a strict balance. For water however, a simple evaporation desalinater is extremely efficient on the ocean, even in cloudy weather.

>>121138
Ketosis is a carb free diet and it's fine.

We can make energy from protein.

>>120591
Dude, even mountains and deserts are "barriers" that you can cross but it is harder. There is a reason why China has a shape it has. Its surrounded by natural barriers at all borders.

>>120952
3 months of water would, tho. and he slept in that thing so maybe he's got half of it for supplies
thats kinda what i figure tho, some vacuumed dehydrated super concentrated stuff.
>>120954
have you ever fished in the ocean? they're bigger, stronger, fight more, I don't think that thing is stable enough to resist. surely danging bait would attract bad things too. 3 months of raw fish sounds like a bad gamble but maybe the fucker ate tons of it anyway. again, it's really the water situation i'm wondering about.
>>120895
he does not appear to have a water tower.

>>121171
>have you ever fished in the ocean? t
No. But after this thread I realize it's dangerous.

It would be bad ass though.

Now someone needs to be the first to cross surviving on caught fish.

*sigh*. They've been doing this for years with transatlantic ocean rowers - there's even an annual race for pairs and doubles that usually gets about 10 teams. They know how to do sleep, water, and food (which you *cannot* do with fish, because you are doing super-marathons every day -- you have to stock grains).

All you lazy fucks have to do is google "transatlantic rowing".

>>121188
sounds too easy that way.

>>120248
>93 days

Huh. Steve Callahan did it in 76 in a life raft after his boat sank. He was even a couple hundred nm east where this guy started & ended up ashore barely 5 nm from where the paddle-boarder ended.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/23/adrift-in-atlantic-76-days

And a guy in 1956 paddled a 17' folding kayak across the Atlantic in 72 days without a cabin to protect him from the elements or a self-righting hull. In fact he rode out a storm clinging to his overturned hull.

Still, Chris Bertish did it in fine style and for charity. Reading the details of his trip shows he used a para-anchor system in any windy conditions to let the board just drive itself down the waved while he sheltered in the cabin. He did this quite a bit on his journey.

http://www.thesupcrossing.com/

When you get into the trades in that region you can easily see 15-20 kt winds at your back for weeks on end & the sea state pretty regular. I suspect most of the paddling was to keep his 1300 lb "board" on course. And he had an auto-pilot, Maud Fontenoy rowed both oceans in a similar boat without one, meaning she lay ahull during sleep/rest periods & storms.

And not really convinced calling it a paddle-board is right as pics clearly show a hull with freeboard - which clearly means that is not just a board.

Still pretty cool what he did and for a good cause too.

>>120954
Fish tend to stay pretty close to shore. Middle of the ocean is pretty much a desert.

>>121080
Are you literally in high school?? Stop posting brat

>>121987
All that salt will give you hypertension, anon

>>121191

umm... can you or anyone you know do a super-marathon (about 10 hours continuous running/rowing at race pace or 14 biking/skiing) every day for 30 days? Olympic-class athletes need to go into special training for at least 6 months before even thinking of attempting something like that.

>>122045
Yes. If I really wanted to. He just rode a fucking boat and ate snacks.