Man Who Left Corporate Job Joins 3 Veterans Rowing Across North Atlantic In World Record Pursuit

When Adam Ratcliffe discontinue his firm occupation 3 years agone to go a full-time "adventurer," he ne'er pictured rowing 3,500 nautical miles crossed 1 of nan world's most hazardous oceans – particularly pinch 3 ex-Royal Marines and connected a vessel erstwhile mislaid astatine sea. 

Their ngo is to break nan world grounds of rowing crossed nan North Atlantic, to push their individual limits and to raise consciousness astir veterans' intelligence health. 

The four-man, all-British "Team United We Conquer" plans to depart from Liberty Landing, New Jersey, connected Thursday and title to make it to nan British Isles of Scilly successful nether 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes. 

In an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Ratcliffe and teammate Jack Jarvis explained their extremity is to raise £50,000 (approximately $67,158) for Head Up, a mental wellness charity benefiting nan British equipped forces community. 

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"Team United We Conquer" members Adam Ratcliffe, Jack Jarvis, David "Brucey" Bruce and Sam "Nutty" Edwards hole to statement crossed nan North Atlantic from New York City. (Adam Ratcliffe)

Jarvis, a 12-year British service seasoned who holds nan world grounds for solo rowing crossed nan Atlantic successful 111 days, said this adjacent task comes conscionable months aft he near military service successful February. Since returning to civilian life, Jarvis said he has knowledgeable feelings of a "lack of purpose," but he joked that he doubts he will consciousness nan consciousness of isolation communal among veterans. After all, he will beryllium walking connected a seven-meter vessel pinch "three different hairy men" for much than 40 days. 

"Doing thing for illustration this has really fixed maine that purpose, you know, that meaning, that I'm doing thing worthwhile pinch my clip and really going retired location and making a difference," Jarvis told Fox News Digital. "And yeah, we're very adjacent now, but aft 40 days of surviving connected apical of each other, inquire that mobility astatine nan end…. But no, I'm judge nan champion friendships are forged successful nan fire." 

By contrast, Ratcliffe, nan only personnel of nan unit without subject experience, near his firm occupation arsenic an technologist to prosecute creating escapade contented connected YouTube full-time. He said he could return to nan firm world aft his sabbatical, "but realistically, erstwhile I'm connected my deathbed astatine 90 years old, what would I see nan slightest cowardice determination and nan champion determination for my life to be?"

By signing onto this trip, he said he wants to dispersed nan connection to anyone, seasoned aliases non-veteran, who struggles pinch intelligence wellness that "they person nan autonomy to alteration their situation and power nan measurement that they interact pinch nan world, moreover erstwhile you consciousness for illustration you can't, aliases you're conscionable floating successful nan mediate of an ocean." 

"This kindness exemplifies taking backmost a spot of power and conscionable focusing connected what you tin do, you know, eat successful nan correct way, get immoderate exercise, socializing," Ratcliffe said. "All that matters is you tin conscionable return backmost immoderate of that powerfulness and commencement building momentum successful your ain life again. And that connection evidently is shared advice, whether you've served successful nan equipped forces aliases not."

Jack Jarvis and different members of "Team United We Stand" statement successful New York harbor while preparing for their North Atlantic trek. (Adam Ratcliffe)

Ratcliffe and Jarvis will beryllium joined by Royal Marines veterans David "Brucey" Bruce and Sam "Nutty" Edwards arsenic they activity to bring nan vessel erstwhile abandoned disconnected nan seashore of Africa successful nan Canary Islands each nan measurement location to nan U.K. The vessel floated complete 11 months each nan measurement crossed to nan Caribbean. The squad recovered it and fixed it up successful nan Bahamas and rowed nan vessel to mainland Florida. Now successful New York, their adjacent trek does not travel without sizeable risk. 

While location person been hundreds of successful expeditions crossed nan Mid-Atlantic, nan North Atlantic is little often traversed by solo water rowers and teams. Ratcliffe and Jarvis noted group person died attempting this route. 

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"Why americium I risking my life erstwhile I don't request to? I deliberation I agelong for that consciousness of meaning, astir why I joined nan military, truthful if I tin transmission that into doing thing astonishing and raise a load of money to help, to thief veterans and serving members of nan equipped forces, you know, why not erstwhile I'm physically tin and able?" Jarvis said. "Just because I'm not moving a firm job, is that what I should beryllium doing? Yeah, I'm moving my ain race, surviving my ain life, truthful that's why I do it." 

"This situation has put decease into position for maine arsenic well, but nan logic that I signed connected and I'm taking these decisions successful my life is I don't want to time off tons of abstraction connected nan array successful position of fulfilling my potential," Ratcliffe added. 

Once reaching nan Isles of Scilly, they scheme to proceed to Northampton, England, wherever they will extremity their travel together. 

The existent world grounds holders for nan fastest four-person westbound to eastbound statement crossed nan North Atlantic are Leven Brown, Don Lennox, Ray Carroll and Livar Nysted. They completed nan statement from Battery Park, New York, to nan Isles of Scilly connected June 17, 2010.

More than a decade later, Jarvis told Fox News Digital his squad plans to usage Elon Musk's Starlink technology erstwhile a time and hopefully question and reply pinch nan media astatine nan half-way point. Even so, he joked nan situation will thief hit telephone addiction. 

"A awesome way, if you're addicted to being online, is to spell and statement an ocean, because you don't person clip to cheque TikTok and Instagram," Jarvis said. 

Ratcliffe said supporters tin way their location connected Garmin and nonstop donations to Head Up done nan website, www.teamunitedwithconquer.com. 

"Team United We Conquer" members Adam Ratcliffe, Jack Jarvis, David "Brucey" Bruce and Sam "Nutty" Edwards statement successful New York earlier attempting to transverse nan North Atlantic. (Adam Ratcliffe)

Ratcliffe and Jarvis some shared lessons they've learned successful overcoming adversity, encouraging others to prosecute nan existent type of themselves, whether successful large aliases mini ways. 

"I deliberation adversity is inevitable – nary matter who you are, each azygous human, basically, adversity that feels for illustration it's stretching them, and whether you're fighting successful a warfare aliases conscionable fighting nan conflict to get retired of furniture successful nan morning, that tin consciousness insurmountable for whoever you are connected a individual basis," Ratcliffe said. 

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"Adversity tin beryllium thing from rowing nan Atlantic to conscionable getting up and moving a 12-hour displacement that you mightiness hate, but you person to do it to support your family," Jarvis said, explaining that crossing nan North Atlantic sounds overwhelming, but little truthful if you attraction connected conscionable nan adjacent rowing displacement aliases nan adjacent java break. "Break it down, not fto yourself spell overwhelmed and conscionable attraction connected nan adjacent measurement forward."