![]() A phone is stashed on board in case of emergencies, and the brothers will have some internet communication with support staff back on dry land. Every day of the journey, they'll burn more calories than they can consume, so they spent some nine months packing on about 20 extra pounds apiece before shoving off.Īll their food - wet, dry and freeze-dried alike - is packed onboard, as is a solar-powered desalination machine they'll use to convert ocean water into drinking water. Suffice to say, it's not a simple undertaking.īoth John and Kurt were members of their college crew teams, but rowing across an ocean is a different beast in many ways. The race touts itself by claiming that more people have summited Mount Everest than rowed across the Atlantic. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) They're part of a small field competing in what's called the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge (Opens in a new tab), a rowing race that tests the bounds of human endurance. The next morning the two brothers were scheduled to depart on their voyage, which was planned to span more than 3,000 nautical miles and last about 50 days before they finally hit land again at the West Indies island of Antigua. John and Kurt spoke to Mashable by phone Tuesday night from the Canary Islands. ![]() It's kind of a running joke in the rowing community that, if you're going to do this, you'd better be prepared to row naked." "Certainly other folks have done it in the past. You want to reduce friction as much as possible, to cut back on blisters and sores and such. ![]() The two brothers (John is 33 years old, Kurt is 29) figure it will take more than a million oar strokes apiece to complete the voyage. With that sentence, it brings things to a full stop.Damian Lillard, Steve Francis and the unbroken circle of NBA fandom Speaking afterwards, the younger brother said: “It’s a great relief. Sentencing Black to five years in prison, he said he would suspend the final two years on condition that the defendant have no unauthorised contact with anyone under 18 on his release. Judge Quinn said Black had engaged an “a continuous series of sexual abuse over a protracted period of time which destroyed the innocence of two little boys”. Counsel for Black, Eoin Gallagher BL, said his client fully apologised and acknowledged the pain and upset he had caused.Ī probation report assessed Black as being at a moderate risk of re-offending and said he had a limited understanding of the impact of his offences on his victims. The older brother told the court that he felt he had failed to protect his younger and more vulnerable brother from Black’s evil actions which he claimed would “remain forever like a stain on my soul”.īlack, who is now estranged from his family, insisted that there were no other victims of his abuse apart from the three males whose cases had come before the courts. ![]() The boy’s quick thinking by accelerating off at speed prevented more serious abuse. The court heard Black assaulted the older brother one night when they were stopped in a car while out hunting rabbits by trying to open his victim’s trousers. Judge Patrick Quinn observed that the offences involved “a high level of grooming”. Another time, Black was interrupted by the boy’s older brother when he was in a bedroom with the victim during a party in their family home, while their parents and others were downstairs. On another occasion, the boy was abused in Black’s bedroom after being invited to stay overnight in his house. When questioned by gardaí about the abuse reported by the brothers, Black confessed and revealed he had been abused as a child.ĭet Garda Kevin Donnegan gave evidence that the first offence against the younger brother, then aged nine, occurred at a hall in Co Wexford during a Boys’ Brigade camp in around 1976.ĭet Garda Donegan said Black put his hand inside the boy’s pyjamas while he was asleep and touched his penis before taking his victim’s hand and placing it on his own penis. ![]()
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