What is Ocean Rowing? |
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Ocean rowing is a challenging division of the rowing sport, and has become increasingly popular in recent years as a means of fund-raising for worthy causes and charities. Ocean rowing can be incredibly dangerous because of the rough and unpredictable conditions of the world's large maritime waters, and also because most of the ocean rowing competitions are long-distance and thus create further issues with crew fatigue, hunger and exposure to the conditions. The degree of difficulty involved with ocean rowing is one of the main reasons it is taken up as a pursuit to inspire fund-raising.
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Everyone is familiar with the concept of rowing, the sport which requires participants who are seated in a boat to pull or push themselves across a body of water with oars. Rowing can be competitive, with one or more rowing crews racing each other from a start to a finish, or it can be a relaxing pursuit. Some use rowing as a way to get fit and maintain fitness, whilst others view rowing as a means of getting from one destination to another. Providing one is equipped with a suitable water-borne vessel (a boat, gig or row-boat being the most appropriate choices), a means of propelling oneself through the water (usually with two or more oars depending on the amount of people in the boat), and a suitable body of water to row upon (lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans being popular), one is perfectly capable of 'rowing'. For this reason rowing has, in one form or another, been around for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years.