From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” Department, CTV is reporting:
Two British adventurers who were planning a record-setting row from St. John’s, N.L., to Bristol, England, have called off their expedition after warnings from Canadian ice experts.
Experienced rowers Roz Savage, 44, and Andrew Morris, 48, had joined forces to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a bid to raise environmental awareness.
But local experts say the waters off Newfoundland and Labrador are brimming with fragmented shards of ice from icebergs, greatly increasing the risk of damaging their boat.