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[Natalia whispering]
Can you hear the silence?

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[in normal voice]
If something was to happen,

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I know that I've had no regrets
in my life whatsoever.

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[Lizanne] Life is fragile,

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and there's a real sense
of helplessness.

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[Emma] I've not got anything left to give.

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[Laura] I just...

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really want to get home.

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[man 1] The vast Pacific Ocean
is a formidable force.

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In the history of humans,

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only very few have been able to cross it.

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[woman 1] The man and his partner
were pulled from heavy seas 11 days ago.

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[woman 2] Six-meter swell
struck the rowers' boat, rolling it.

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[man 2] Two women rowers spent 16 hours

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clinging to the hull of their boat
in the Atlantic Ocean.

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[woman 3]
This was their second failed attempt.

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[man 3] Now a dramatic rescue at sea.
A giant wave caught them by surprise,

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instantly flipping the boat over.

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[woman 4] She had to cling on for her life

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as the boat capsized
over and over again.

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[woman 5] The whole trip very nearly ended
in tragedy.

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[woman 1] Now, to the story of four women
who are about to embark

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on an incredible challenge.

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[man 1] The first all-woman crew
to row more than 8000 miles

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across the world's largest ocean.

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[woman 2] An amazing journey rowing
across the Pacific Ocean.

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[man 2] From California in the U.S.
to Cairns in Australia...

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[man 3] Two will row
as two sleep below deck,

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two hours on, two hours off,
24 hours a day.

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There will be no support boat
in the Pacific.

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They reckon it will take
six and a half months.

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[woman 3] So, why would four women
take on this dangerous task,

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arguably the hardest ocean crossing
in the world?

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Laura?

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[Laura] Thank you!

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My name's Laura Penhaul,
and I'm part of the Coxless Crew.

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It's really bizarre to be here 'cause this
is three and a half years in the making.

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We're doing a team selection.
Trying to select the right crew

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and looking at different personalities.

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We are focusing a lot at the moment
on our physical training,

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but I would say 80 percent of it
is going to be our mental strength.

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It's a massive expedition.
It's one thing thinking it.

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It's whether you actually go through
with it.

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It's been a long road to the start line.

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In October 2012, we chose
to represent Breast Cancer Care

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and I decided to use all of my savings
to begin construction on Doris.

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A year and a half into the project,

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Cambridge rower Emma Mitchell
joined the team.

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There was a lot of hard work
securing sponsorships that we needed.

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We did a final recruitment in May of 2014,

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and this is where we met Izzy, Natalia,

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as well as our two reserve rowers,
Lizanne and Meg.

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We've trained extensively,
both mentally and physically,

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to make sure we are best prepared
for anything that we face.

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At the end of the day,
this is unsupported.

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We've got to roll with the punches.
That's part of the expedition.

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To me, if you've then got
somebody following you along,

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it's too easy to have an option

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to jump out and go,
"We'll just jump on that bigger ship

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because that's going to be
a bit more comfortable,"

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rather than riding out the storm
and doing what we've set out to do.

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When people have second-guessed it
or not believed in it,

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it's only driven me more
to want to make it happen.

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She didn't want to look back
in ten years' time

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and say "I wish I'd done that."

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She just said, "We're gonna do it."

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I need to fit everything
in that cabin first.

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Then we can go.

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I think at the moment, being
on the oars in Doris is my happy place.

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I'll see if that's still the case
by the time we get to Australia.

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[Sara] When Emma got involved in rowing,
she must have been 12, 13 years old.

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She stopped everything for rowing.

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It was fairly phenomenal
what an impact rowing had on her.

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It was like this focus, this drive,
that gave her strength and character.

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And she loved it.

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I mean, she was out
at 5:00 in the morning.

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She would be blue with the cold
when she'd come back.

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It could be a midlife crisis, but it would
be an impressive midlife crisis to have.

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"What did you do?"
"Well, I rowed across the Pacific."

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So, here we are.

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We're going to see Natalia
getting her ECG done.

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Hey, Nat!

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She's lived an amazing life of 15 years

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of going from place to place
and only doing the things

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that she truly loves and adores.

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It's crazy.
I've never known and I'm sure

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I will never meet anybody like it again.

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I'm not going to say I want her
to be married and have children,

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because I really don't care.

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If that's not her life,
that's not her life.

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She must just be fulfilled
in whatever she does.

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[Natalia] All of my past experiences

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have actually been so instrumental

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into getting me here.

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It just feels really strange.

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And it feels slightly
like just a training row, as well.

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But...

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I'm sure it will be real soon enough.

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[Jean] Isabel has climbed
to over-6000-meter peaks in the Himalayas,

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and when she heard about this,
she saw it

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as a really serious challenge
and she wanted to pursue it.

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[Isabel] I like to not stick out,
and I like to take the ordinary course.

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It's quite hard to actually stop
and say, "You know what?

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I think I want to do something
massively different."

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The main reason

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is to test myself

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and just to see what I'm capable of.

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[speaking indistinctly]

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So, if you can imagine the wind is coming
from that direction, from over there.

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-Yeah?
-Yeah.

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You would put the para anchor in
on that corner. Yeah.

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[Emma] Tony is our shore support.

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He will be in touch with us

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on a daily basis
whilst we're out in the ocean.

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[Tony] Make sure
it's really done up tight.

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I hear the girls are going
to break lots of records.

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The girls aren't going
to break any records.

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They're going to establish records
because this has never been done before.

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The fact that it hasn't been done before
is testament to how tough it is.

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[Emma] We're rowing
from San Francisco to Hawaii.

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Have a few days to restock the boat.

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And then we row
between Hawaii and Samoa.

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And then the final leg is from Samoa
over to Cairns in Australia.

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The whole journey in total is 8446 miles.

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[Laura] What I loved about this route
in particular

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is there's never been a male team either.

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This is the first fours boat ever to cross
the Pacific Ocean, north or south.

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[Jean] I've had moments that I found it

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absolutely devastating,
the idea that she's doing it.

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Aw...

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[Sara] I'm her Mom.
She's still my little girl.

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She's about to go out
onto that huge ocean,

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and a bit of me is terrified.

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Quite a strange sense of calm.

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Let's hope it's not the calm
before the storm.

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See you later!

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Adieu!

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Mwah. Love you!

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We're about to row the Pacific!

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[all laughing]

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[Emma] This is so surreal. [laughs]

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[Laura] So surreal.

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Three cheers for Doris!

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-Hip, hip, hooray!
-[all] Hooray!

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-Hip, hip, hooray!
-Hooray!

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Hip, hip, hooray!

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[Natalia] So, this is it.

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The journey has begun.

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This is really happening.

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We're starting to get our routines
a little bit slicker,

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getting on and off the oars,
which is good.

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This is going to be
a period of adjustment.

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Ah, hello. We just got off the oars,

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and about an hour ago
we saw a whale in the distance.

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Oh, my God!

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Jesus, he's huge!

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[Emma] Neither of us had ever seen
a whale before.

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He just poked his blowhole out.

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Whoa!

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One came and
fully breached out of the water.

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[all shout]

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[Natalia] I was fairly petrified,
to be honest.

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Petrified-stroke-fascinated.

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It was the strangest feeling
I've ever had.

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I'd love to capture that feeling
and put it in a bottle.

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I've never felt so alive.

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Oh, my God!

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There's not many things
where I feel adrenaline like that.

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Day one.

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Hundred and fifty-four days to go.

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-It's 1:30 in the morning.
-It is indeed.

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And we've just done our, um,
first fully dark night shift.

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So, we're going to snooze until 3:00?

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-Yep.
-And then...

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And then we're back on the oars
at quarter past 3.

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[Emma] Life on Doris
is beautifully simple.

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All you have to do is sit on the oars
and row for two hours,

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and then you have your two hours
where you're either eating

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or sleeping or doing the jobs

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and stuff that you need
to do on the boat.

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[Laura] Doris is our pink 29-foot
ocean rowing boat.

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There's two cabins, one at each end.

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The cabins are about the size
of a fairly small two-man tent.

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We've got solar panels
along the top of the boat,

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and they're connected to our batteries,

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which are underneath the bit
that we sleep on in the cabin.

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If we drain those batteries,
we've got no way of using our GPS

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or making water
and stuff off the electrics.

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So, we need to be really careful
and calculated about that.

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I tell you what.

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Spend 48 hours sitting
in your own bathtub at home

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and imagine you've got a lid over it,

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so, you can't quite sit up straight.

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That's pretty much what it's like
in the forecabin.

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[Isabel] It is breakfast time.

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Emma is going to tell you
what we have today.

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On today's menu,

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for Miss Isabel Burnham
we have some beef shepherd's pie.

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This is our cooker.

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Our little jet boil,
so, we have to boil up some water.

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We should probably run
the water maker, as well, Ems.

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Yeah.

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We've got enough food to give each of us
about 5000 calories every day.

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And the bulk of those calories
come from our expedition foods,

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which are freeze-dried ration packs.

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There we go, then we just leave it
for a little while to rehydrate,

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and then... hot food.

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Thanks, Ems!

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Night shifts are the worst

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because you just wake up,

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you've got to get back into your cold,
wet, soggy wet-weather gear,

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wet socks, wet shoes, and you've gotta
get out of the warm sleeping bag

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and then not fall asleep
if you're some of us.

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And that, ladies and gentlemen,

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is the ritual that happens
every two hours, without fail.

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[Emma] This is a week we've been at sea.

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It's a beautiful sunny day,

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and it would be really lovely
except for that fact

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that there is a lot of wind
and a lot of very big waves,

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which are quite scary.

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Every time you go on the oars,
you get completely soaked.

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Little bit of a frustrating day today,
to be honest.

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The wind is pushing us back
towards the coastline.

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And the wind is due
to pick up again this evening.

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[Laura] The size of these waves

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are slightly scaring me a little bit.
They're pretty massive!

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Today they seem to have gotten
a hell of a lot bigger.

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One minute you're looking up
at a three-, four-story house,

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and then the next minute
you're on top of the Pacific.

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They're huge.

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The wind's just too strong.

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It's about 25 to 28 knots.

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We basically have to sit tight here
for the next pretty much 48 hours.

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We want to be out there rowing

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and we want to be rowing
in the right direction.

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[speaking indistinctly]

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[Emma] Tad bit of a drama.

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We went to go and check on the batteries.

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I pulled the cushions back,
and the whole hatch was full of water.

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We lost the MPPT box, which is basically

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the bit of equipment that connects
the solar panels and the batteries.

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Thing is, we're now coming into nighttime.

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At the moment, we're not emitting
any signal, which is a bit of a concern,

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whether boats...

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Well, they won't see us, basically.

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So, we've checked the other hatches,
and actually,

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there's a load of water
in a load of other hatches.

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[Natalia] Our decision was made
for us, really.

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We're going to have to go back to land.

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Very depressing.

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Very frustrating. Um...

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But there's nothing
we can do about it.

253
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Right now we're actually heading
for Santa Barbara.

254
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Yeah.

255
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It's not a great start to an ocean row,
that's for sure.

256
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Anyhoo...

257
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[Laura] Being out here
has made me question why...

258
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Why are we out here?
Why are we doing this?

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Why did I persevere for four years to make
sure this project got off the ground?

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And not...

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Not just because I know
that I'm bloody stubborn.

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The story of why we're here
and why we're doing it for breast cancer.

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Patricia was the most beautiful woman,
and she was in the perfect place.

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Patricia was the person
that would walk into a room

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and everybody would be drawn to her.
She's just lovely.

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It was actually her husband, Rashid,
that I know very well.

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They had just been on their honeymoon
and she fell pregnant.

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And they were just in that perfect bubble.

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And then, unfortunately,
two months into her pregnancy,

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she found a lump.

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He was hugely premature,
but he survived it, little Yassin.

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He's gorgeous.

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She just drew on this strength

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and resilience that Rashid talks about
which is just unbelievable.

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[Patricia] Do we have to?

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[babbles]

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Yeah, we've got to.

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And we've got to.

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[Laura] I saw her within that period,

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and she was experiencing a lot
of neck pain and back pain,

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so, we sent her back to her oncologist,

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and that's when they found
that she had secondaries.

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[Rashid] Give Mama a kissy.

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Give Mama a kissy. Come on.

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I took each day for granted,
and don't do that.

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Just get on with life.

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[Rashid] What happens
if things get difficult?

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You just keep going
and you keep going and you keep going.

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[Laura] It was within about two months
after that that she passed away.

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I guess out here it makes you realize
all of those sorts of things.

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Simple things like love

292
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and having friends
and family around you

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that are just amazing.

294
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I guess the point is

295
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life's too short
and you really do have to live it.

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Um... We really, really believe in that,

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and that's why we're here and that's
why we're doing what we're doing.

298
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Patricia wouldn't have given up at all.

299
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She was fighting for her life, so,
we can fight to get across to Australia.

300
00:19:02,908 --> 00:19:05,845
Seamanship is about making
the right decisions at the right times,

301
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and that's what they've done.

302
00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:11,917
You want to undo
that bowline for us, Nat?

303
00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:21,861
They are now actually

304
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further away from Honolulu than they were
when they started out in San Francisco.

305
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Also, they've come further south now,

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so, they've lost the advantage of going
west from a more northerly position.

307
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So, in all honesty, it's likely

308
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to be a longer row starting out
from Santa Barbara

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than it was starting out
from San Francisco.

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[speaking indistinctly]

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[Natalia] What we've just done
was a perfect insight

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into the hardships that are going to come.

313
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It's going to be a long journey,

314
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but it's going to be an amazing one.

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[all laughing]

316
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[Emma] Nat looks very happy
to be back outside on the oars.

317
00:20:21,921 --> 00:20:23,355
Try as we might,

318
00:20:23,422 --> 00:20:26,292
we are still only just about going west.

319
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But it is better than southeast.

320
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We haven't seen the sunshine,
the stars or the moon for about a week.

321
00:20:39,672 --> 00:20:41,774
We're hoping that at some point soon

322
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the weather starts
to get a little bit better.

323
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[Laura] We've got both wind
and current now against us.

324
00:20:52,818 --> 00:20:54,687
This is fine.
It's just part of the challenges.

325
00:20:55,888 --> 00:20:57,690
[groans]

326
00:21:10,536 --> 00:21:12,772
[Laura] We just ticked off 300 miles!

327
00:21:13,405 --> 00:21:14,840
So, like totally nearly there.

328
00:21:14,907 --> 00:21:17,309
Only like 2000 to go and that's Hawaii.

329
00:21:17,376 --> 00:21:18,410
[both chuckling]

330
00:21:18,477 --> 00:21:19,979
We'll be there in a couple of days!

331
00:21:20,045 --> 00:21:21,280
Oh, dear.

332
00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:32,291
[Laura] It's Emma's birthday today.
She's 30!

333
00:21:32,758 --> 00:21:35,327
And it's actually been a blue-sky day,
which is great.

334
00:21:35,394 --> 00:21:38,664
So, um, we've just set up some balloons.

335
00:21:38,998 --> 00:21:40,499
[laughing]

336
00:21:40,566 --> 00:21:42,334
[all] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

337
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♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

338
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Emma's amazing. She is very different

339
00:21:49,742 --> 00:21:53,979
to anyone that I would ordinarily
be friends with

340
00:21:54,046 --> 00:21:56,782
because she's very quiet

341
00:21:56,849 --> 00:21:58,684
and very introverted

342
00:21:58,751 --> 00:22:01,954
and isn't incredibly emotional
or expressive.

343
00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:05,024
She's just really steady,

344
00:22:05,624 --> 00:22:09,428
and I think I'm gonna value that hugely
on the boat.

345
00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:14,600
You can tell with Emma
she just loves rowing.

346
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She's just so happy as soon
as she gets onto the oars.

347
00:22:18,704 --> 00:22:20,973
[Emma] It's one of those sports
that when you start it

348
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,444
you kind of get hooked because it's more
than just the actual exercise bit.

349
00:22:25,511 --> 00:22:29,348
It's such a community
and such a team activity.

350
00:22:30,916 --> 00:22:32,851
[Laura] Here's a little something
from all of us.

351
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It's a little oar with a little message
on the back.

352
00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:42,061
[Laura] Ems leaves her heart and soul
on those oars every time.

353
00:22:42,728 --> 00:22:46,398
She's gonna be one of the rocks
in the boat that keeps us all together.

354
00:22:55,841 --> 00:22:57,409
[Emma] Good morning!

355
00:22:57,476 --> 00:22:58,877
We're now heading on a bearing

356
00:22:58,944 --> 00:23:01,413
to Hawaii again, which is quite exciting,

357
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,782
and hopefully,
we'll pick up a bit of speed.

358
00:23:04,850 --> 00:23:08,087
We're making progress,
very slowly, but making progress

359
00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:09,622
because we are moving west.

360
00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:12,658
And we've slipped into this pattern,
really.

361
00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:17,429
To be honest, for me
it's become quite a monotonous pattern.

362
00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:20,466
The shifts move very, very quickly,

363
00:23:20,532 --> 00:23:21,967
on the oars, off the oars.

364
00:23:22,034 --> 00:23:26,005
Daytime into nighttime,
nighttime into daytime.

365
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:29,541
Rowing, resting, rowing, resting.

366
00:23:32,878 --> 00:23:36,081
[Laura] I think the overall effect
of living life

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00:23:36,148 --> 00:23:39,952
in two-hourly chunks is that
you're so focused on each two hours

368
00:23:40,019 --> 00:23:41,954
that you just don't notice
where the time's gone.

369
00:23:42,021 --> 00:23:43,589
[Natalia] The biggest surprise for me

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00:23:43,656 --> 00:23:49,061
is actually how quickly we adapt
as human beings, physically and mentally,

371
00:23:49,128 --> 00:23:51,730
to a situation
that we've put ourselves in.

372
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,742
My main concern right now

373
00:24:03,809 --> 00:24:07,046
is that we have a weather window
when we look at the full picture

374
00:24:07,112 --> 00:24:08,514
for getting to Cairns.

375
00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:09,948
The longer we take on this leg,

376
00:24:10,015 --> 00:24:12,584
the less time we have
to do the other legs,

377
00:24:12,651 --> 00:24:14,086
and it has a knock-on effect.

378
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:35,808
[both shout]

379
00:24:35,874 --> 00:24:36,809
It's chilly!

380
00:24:43,582 --> 00:24:44,650
[woman laughs]

381
00:24:52,925 --> 00:24:55,027
[Natalia whispering]
Can you hear the silence?

382
00:24:57,062 --> 00:24:59,898
It's ridiculous.
You never just hear nothing out here.

383
00:24:59,965 --> 00:25:02,701
We're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,

384
00:25:02,768 --> 00:25:04,536
and there's not a sound.

385
00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:09,608
Missing home a bit today. Just thinking...

386
00:25:10,609 --> 00:25:12,878
that we missed out on quite a lot,

387
00:25:12,945 --> 00:25:15,280
um, while we've been out here.

388
00:25:15,547 --> 00:25:16,281
But, um...

389
00:25:16,949 --> 00:25:19,218
then again, you're sort of... out here

390
00:25:19,284 --> 00:25:22,755
on a night like this
or an afternoon like today in the sunshine

391
00:25:22,821 --> 00:25:25,924
and think that you'd rather be doing this
than anything else.

392
00:25:32,831 --> 00:25:35,968
I have big concerns
about the amount of stress

393
00:25:36,034 --> 00:25:37,936
that I'll be putting my family under.

394
00:25:38,604 --> 00:25:42,040
I think they felt it was
an unnecessary risk to take

395
00:25:42,107 --> 00:25:45,010
because they didn't understand
the motivation.

396
00:25:45,077 --> 00:25:47,613
If you don't understand
why someone would want to do it,

397
00:25:47,679 --> 00:25:51,884
then of course it seems
like an unnecessary and crazy thing to do.

398
00:25:53,318 --> 00:25:55,854
[Jean] I have very,
very supportive friends,

399
00:25:55,921 --> 00:25:59,191
but they have no comprehension
of how difficult it is,

400
00:25:59,258 --> 00:26:01,193
because their children have not decided

401
00:26:01,260 --> 00:26:03,829
that they're going to do something
quite so extreme.

402
00:26:05,697 --> 00:26:07,699
[Tony] When you asked me
would I ever row an ocean,

403
00:26:07,766 --> 00:26:11,203
the reason I say no is because
I know how tough it is to row an ocean

404
00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:13,806
and I know how much
you've got to want to do it.

405
00:26:15,073 --> 00:26:17,576
[Isabel] When I started,
I knew it would be a big project,

406
00:26:17,643 --> 00:26:20,612
but I didn't realize how, how big.

407
00:26:22,014 --> 00:26:23,715
Before we left San Francisco,

408
00:26:23,782 --> 00:26:26,685
I made the difficult decision
to only row one leg.

409
00:26:27,686 --> 00:26:30,756
As much as I desperately wanted
to row the whole way,

410
00:26:30,823 --> 00:26:31,857
the only thing

411
00:26:31,924 --> 00:26:36,161
that's more important than what
I really want to do is my family.

412
00:27:05,891 --> 00:27:07,159
Very lovely.

413
00:27:07,226 --> 00:27:08,727
Let's resume.

414
00:27:15,834 --> 00:27:18,203
Rowing. We don't do enough of this.

415
00:27:19,004 --> 00:27:21,373
We only do 12 hours of this every day.

416
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:24,009
We've only done 1200 miles so far.

417
00:27:24,076 --> 00:27:25,143
Yeah, not a lot.

418
00:27:26,912 --> 00:27:30,249
Within the first three minutes
speaking to Laura,

419
00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:34,152
I just knew
that we had a very similar value system.

420
00:27:36,054 --> 00:27:38,824
[Laura] I've always wanted
to sort of have an impact

421
00:27:38,891 --> 00:27:42,294
and make sure that in my life
I've kind of achieved things

422
00:27:42,361 --> 00:27:43,862
that have made a difference.

423
00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:48,700
I've always loved doing sport.

424
00:27:48,767 --> 00:27:50,903
As a kid I would either be doing
cross-country running

425
00:27:50,969 --> 00:27:52,671
and playing hockey or netball.

426
00:27:53,238 --> 00:27:56,275
Even at the age of 12,
I knew I wanted to be a physio.

427
00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:58,810
And now I'm 32, I am a physio.

428
00:27:58,877 --> 00:28:01,880
But I think when I was about 8,
I would watch the Olympics

429
00:28:01,947 --> 00:28:03,215
and said to my mom and dad:

430
00:28:03,282 --> 00:28:06,218
"You know, one day I'd love
to be at the Olympics,"

431
00:28:06,285 --> 00:28:08,320
not realizing in what capacity.

432
00:28:09,021 --> 00:28:11,690
Now I've been to two Paralympics

433
00:28:11,757 --> 00:28:13,792
and we've got Rio when I finish the row.

434
00:28:14,860 --> 00:28:16,328
My work is part of my identity.

435
00:28:16,395 --> 00:28:17,963
It's what I live for.

436
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:22,401
To me, being involved in Rio
is kind of the pinnacle of my career.

437
00:28:22,467 --> 00:28:26,405
But I think sometimes you've really
got to go with your gut, when you know...

438
00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:29,841
There's certain opportunities that come up
you just know you have to take.

439
00:28:30,842 --> 00:28:32,411
We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her.

440
00:28:32,477 --> 00:28:35,781
I think we'd follow her
wherever she wanted to take us, really.

441
00:28:48,293 --> 00:28:50,062
[man over radio] Yes, Doris, go ahead.

442
00:28:50,929 --> 00:28:54,299
Yeah, we can see you
approaching us at the moment.

443
00:28:54,366 --> 00:28:59,504
If you can keep a bit of a safe distance.
We have pretty much no maneuverability.

444
00:29:00,806 --> 00:29:02,774
[man] We won't hit you,
don't worry about that.

445
00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:04,042
-[foghorn blowing]
-[Emma laughs]

446
00:29:04,109 --> 00:29:07,946
Yeah, we're on, uh, day 57
since we left Santa Barbara.

447
00:29:10,182 --> 00:29:12,184
-[man] That's a long slog.
-[laughs]

448
00:29:12,251 --> 00:29:14,886
[man] Weather forecast, have you seen it?

449
00:29:14,953 --> 00:29:16,455
You're gonna get bounced around.

450
00:29:17,389 --> 00:29:18,290
You'll feel it.

451
00:29:19,024 --> 00:29:20,525
[thunder rumbling]

452
00:29:27,399 --> 00:29:28,800
[Natalia] Day 59.

453
00:29:28,867 --> 00:29:30,802
Tropical Storm Ella.

454
00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:33,905
Lots of waves coming over.

455
00:29:33,972 --> 00:29:35,841
Uh, heavy wind.

456
00:29:37,042 --> 00:29:41,913
The wind has picked up again, and we
were getting blown really far south.

457
00:29:45,017 --> 00:29:46,218
There's big swells. Um...

458
00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:49,254
We're on the edge of a tropical rainstorm,
and there's a lot going on.

459
00:29:52,357 --> 00:29:54,126
Really windy out there.

460
00:29:54,192 --> 00:29:58,363
We're fighting against the wind
and the current as well at the moment.

461
00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:10,509
Feel a little bit like you're getting hit
by a bus, to be honest.

462
00:30:23,055 --> 00:30:25,357
The only thing I could think about
for the whole session was:

463
00:30:25,424 --> 00:30:26,992
"You've gotta row, you've gotta row."

464
00:30:27,059 --> 00:30:30,862
I was almost having to convince myself
every single stroke to just not stop.

465
00:30:36,201 --> 00:30:40,038
[Natalia] We're rowing
like we've never rowed before.

466
00:30:59,391 --> 00:31:00,592
Look, Nat!

467
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,295
Land ahoy, baby!

468
00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:04,329
[woman laughs]

469
00:31:05,263 --> 00:31:07,899
Whoo!

470
00:31:07,966 --> 00:31:09,968
[whooping]

471
00:31:14,172 --> 00:31:15,640
[whistling]

472
00:31:15,907 --> 00:31:17,075
[inaudible dialogue]

473
00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:23,582
[Laura] Here we are.

474
00:31:23,648 --> 00:31:26,485
About one mile to go.

475
00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:28,920
Less, 0.2 miles to the entrance.

476
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,123
[Natalia] We're nearly there.

477
00:31:32,391 --> 00:31:34,126
We're so nearly there.

478
00:31:40,332 --> 00:31:44,436
Me and the ladies are bringing her home!

479
00:31:45,470 --> 00:31:47,472
[crowd cheering]

480
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:52,210
[man] Way to go, girls!

481
00:32:28,213 --> 00:32:29,714
[chattering]

482
00:32:38,256 --> 00:32:43,662
Coming back to land
and eating fresh, hydrated food

483
00:32:43,728 --> 00:32:45,397
was absolutely incredible.

484
00:32:45,464 --> 00:32:49,501
I think as well as the taste sensation,

485
00:32:49,568 --> 00:32:53,472
it's also the colors, the array of colors
that you get in real food

486
00:32:53,538 --> 00:32:56,107
that you just don't get
in dehydrated food.

487
00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,212
This whole meal is heaven.

488
00:33:01,046 --> 00:33:03,381
[Lizanne] This is the one plus
about rowing an ocean:

489
00:33:03,448 --> 00:33:07,719
you can eat brownies for days.

490
00:33:10,489 --> 00:33:14,059
My name is Lizanne van Vurren,
and I was born in South Africa.

491
00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:16,294
I wasn't the typical, I guess,

492
00:33:16,361 --> 00:33:18,597
girl who played inside with dolls all day.

493
00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:20,465
I was a bit of a tomboy.

494
00:33:22,267 --> 00:33:25,537
I messaged Laura and I said,
"What you're doing is amazing."

495
00:33:25,604 --> 00:33:29,241
So, she messaged me back and said,
"Well, why you don't join me?"

496
00:33:29,307 --> 00:33:31,776
"I don't row. I don't live in England.

497
00:33:32,043 --> 00:33:34,246
You must be joking." And she said:

498
00:33:34,312 --> 00:33:36,014
"None of that matters."

499
00:33:36,081 --> 00:33:38,683
So, I was held as a reserve

500
00:33:38,750 --> 00:33:41,019
and then Laura called me and said:

501
00:33:41,086 --> 00:33:42,787
"Can you still do it?"

502
00:33:43,054 --> 00:33:45,390
And I was like, "Okay!"

503
00:33:45,457 --> 00:33:46,525
And that was it.

504
00:33:49,628 --> 00:33:51,563
I'll be rowing to Samoa,

505
00:33:51,630 --> 00:33:57,602
and then Megan Dyos will take over
from me and go to Cairns.

506
00:33:58,270 --> 00:34:01,540
It's just something so far
from what I've ever done before

507
00:34:01,606 --> 00:34:03,241
or even thought possible.

508
00:34:05,610 --> 00:34:07,612
[Laura] Girls,
thanks for making this happen.

509
00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:11,816
For finally being an amazing team.
I'm so proud of all of you.

510
00:34:12,083 --> 00:34:13,718
And of Meg, who's not here.

511
00:34:13,785 --> 00:34:16,221
But cheers,
and thanks for the first leg, Izzy.

512
00:34:16,288 --> 00:34:18,490
We've adored you,
and we're going to miss you massively.

513
00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:20,392
[all] Cheers!

514
00:34:21,526 --> 00:34:22,694
Cheers, ladies.

515
00:34:33,138 --> 00:34:36,274
I don't think I realized how
such different reasons

516
00:34:36,341 --> 00:34:38,410
would bring four people
to do the same thing.

517
00:34:39,477 --> 00:34:41,346
My part of the journey has come to an end.

518
00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:43,682
I couldn't have asked
for any more from my experience.

519
00:35:12,243 --> 00:35:15,146
[Tony] California to Hawaii was in theory
going to be the easy leg.

520
00:35:15,213 --> 00:35:17,115
Leg two is a tough one, really.

521
00:35:17,182 --> 00:35:20,452
Leaving from here,
they've got to row more or less due south.

522
00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:23,688
[Laura] It's supposed to take
about 60 days, but just who knows?

523
00:35:23,755 --> 00:35:26,124
The problem is, this year, is El Niño,

524
00:35:26,191 --> 00:35:28,760
and we hadn't factored in actually
how much of an effect that's had

525
00:35:28,827 --> 00:35:31,563
on the trade winds
just 'cause there isn't any trade winds,

526
00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:34,132
so, there's no assistance,
and a lot of ocean rowing

527
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:36,468
is about assistance with the wind.

528
00:35:37,402 --> 00:35:38,637
I mean, God!

529
00:35:40,205 --> 00:35:41,806
Yeah, it's all getting real now.

530
00:36:13,705 --> 00:36:18,376
It feels like I'm in a completely
different world. I can't explain it.

531
00:36:18,910 --> 00:36:22,380
It's just like we've been taken
from our day-to-day life

532
00:36:22,447 --> 00:36:24,616
and just inserted in the ocean,

533
00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:26,818
and all you have to do is row.

534
00:36:30,822 --> 00:36:32,524
Oh, my God.

535
00:36:38,930 --> 00:36:40,732
[Laura] Lizanne and I
just stuck our heads in

536
00:36:40,799 --> 00:36:44,402
to, um, see the fishies
up close and personal.

537
00:36:45,770 --> 00:36:48,339
Here she comes.
She's got the old fishing hook.

538
00:36:50,275 --> 00:36:53,745
-So...
-Has it got an instruction manual?

539
00:36:53,812 --> 00:36:54,946
[chuckles]

540
00:36:55,580 --> 00:36:59,451
I'm not really one for an instruction
manual anyway, so, that's all right.

541
00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:03,488
But maybe if we find it in the book
and it's edible, we can...

542
00:37:04,622 --> 00:37:06,624
We can cut it open and eat it.

543
00:37:07,258 --> 00:37:09,260
[laughing]

544
00:37:09,327 --> 00:37:10,662
-Would you?
-Yeah, too right.

545
00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:12,297
-Okay.
-Give it a go.

546
00:37:12,731 --> 00:37:13,865
Not... Yeah.

547
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:16,501
Maybe. [chuckles]

548
00:37:17,268 --> 00:37:20,271
I really connect with Lizanne.
She's just a breath of fresh air.

549
00:37:21,873 --> 00:37:25,677
[Natalia] It's just been a really
different energy to have on the boat,

550
00:37:25,744 --> 00:37:28,379
which I think for the three of us
doing the full journey

551
00:37:28,446 --> 00:37:29,647
is really important.

552
00:37:32,717 --> 00:37:33,718
Whoo!

553
00:37:40,425 --> 00:37:42,894
[Natalia] It's Saturday, which means...

554
00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:45,797
[both] it's Lipstick Saturday!

555
00:37:47,699 --> 00:37:49,434
[chuckles]

556
00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:51,770
We just had a really, really lovely shift.

557
00:37:51,836 --> 00:37:53,571
We saw a beautiful little turtle!

558
00:37:53,638 --> 00:37:54,973
[Lizanne] Yeah, on its own.

559
00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:57,509
Just bobbing along next to us.

560
00:37:57,909 --> 00:38:00,745
There's something about being out here

561
00:38:00,812 --> 00:38:05,416
and there's no noise,
like just nothing apart from us.

562
00:38:05,483 --> 00:38:06,417
It's amazing.

563
00:38:06,484 --> 00:38:09,888
Don't even have, like, an engine
to ruin that for us.

564
00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:15,326
Is it me or does it feel
like we're standing still?

565
00:38:17,328 --> 00:38:19,998
I now realize why people love rowing.

566
00:38:20,064 --> 00:38:22,433
It is so soothing.

567
00:38:41,052 --> 00:38:43,054
[thunder rumbling]

568
00:39:00,371 --> 00:39:03,575
[Emma] So, we have just got off the oars
after two hours

569
00:39:03,641 --> 00:39:08,012
in crazy wind and waves and, um, rain,

570
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:09,647
which was pretty unpleasant,

571
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:14,118
and we haven't really made
very much progress during that two hours.

572
00:39:14,385 --> 00:39:15,987
In the time it took us to swap over,

573
00:39:16,054 --> 00:39:20,491
we've drifted north again,
so, we need to go south.

574
00:39:21,526 --> 00:39:24,362
Okay, I'll get up in a couple of hours
and do the log book.

575
00:39:24,429 --> 00:39:27,899
We're drawing a pretty beautiful picture.
We're now going east.

576
00:39:27,966 --> 00:39:29,067
[Laura] Yeah, I figured.

577
00:39:29,133 --> 00:39:31,836
[Emma] Just radio us if you need anything.

578
00:39:34,472 --> 00:39:36,040
-Night, guys!
-[woman] Good night.

579
00:39:46,117 --> 00:39:49,888
[Tony] They've gotta cross over through
the Intertropical Convergence Zone,

580
00:39:49,954 --> 00:39:52,056
which is the doldrums,
as the sailors used to call it.

581
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:56,895
There's a current which is running
in the opposite direction,

582
00:39:56,961 --> 00:39:59,864
so, it's running east, so,
a little bit like a riptide on a beach.

583
00:39:59,931 --> 00:40:02,800
They can't try and fight into it.
They need to get across it.

584
00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:06,771
[Emma] We seem to have entered
the equatorial countercurrent,

585
00:40:06,838 --> 00:40:09,073
which is pushing us east very fast,

586
00:40:09,140 --> 00:40:12,143
and then we've got a southerly wind,
which is pushing us north,

587
00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:16,414
meaning that for quite a lot of the night
we've been going northeast,

588
00:40:16,481 --> 00:40:19,784
um, and Samoa, from here, is southwest.

589
00:40:24,455 --> 00:40:26,958
There's a lot of thunder activity,
so, it's gonna be hot and humid.

590
00:40:27,025 --> 00:40:31,195
Large area to cross where the current
will take them in the wrong direction.

591
00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:40,204
[Laura] What's going on, LV?

592
00:40:40,905 --> 00:40:42,607
[Lizanne] I'm feeling really nauseous.

593
00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:49,781
So, I just stay like this for a while
and then it goes away.

594
00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:55,787
We're very much
in the thick of the whole doldrums stuff

595
00:40:55,853 --> 00:40:58,790
going on at the moment,
so, some really weird weather.

596
00:41:06,931 --> 00:41:10,101
So much torrential rain and squalls

597
00:41:10,168 --> 00:41:12,804
and dramatic skies,

598
00:41:13,204 --> 00:41:14,806
pan-flat oceans,

599
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:18,943
incredible light reflected on the water.

600
00:41:19,010 --> 00:41:22,113
Just an ocean
that I've never known before.

601
00:41:23,781 --> 00:41:25,783
[thunder rumbling]

602
00:41:26,617 --> 00:41:28,119
[Lizanne] It's day 34,

603
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:31,522
and I'm still being seasick.

604
00:41:31,990 --> 00:41:33,725
I'm sick of being sick.

605
00:41:34,792 --> 00:41:38,129
I can't really keep food down.
My energy levels are low.

606
00:41:45,203 --> 00:41:48,639
There's never a time on the boat
where you miss a shift.

607
00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:53,811
There's never a time where
you ask someone to sub in for you.

608
00:41:53,878 --> 00:41:56,948
You carry on two hours on, two hours off.

609
00:41:59,283 --> 00:42:00,985
I was sick over the side.

610
00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:03,921
I'd get back up and I'd carry on rowing.

611
00:42:11,829 --> 00:42:13,798
[Natalia] It's just a little bit painful

612
00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:14,899
at the moment.

613
00:42:14,966 --> 00:42:18,002
Occasionally we'll pick up speed
and it'll be great,

614
00:42:18,069 --> 00:42:21,172
but it won't last longer
than a couple of shifts.

615
00:42:27,278 --> 00:42:29,313
[Emma] We've really struggled
with adverse currents,

616
00:42:29,580 --> 00:42:32,050
adverse winds.
We don't seem to have a lot of help

617
00:42:32,116 --> 00:42:34,619
going on at all from Mother Nature.

618
00:42:34,685 --> 00:42:36,687
This leg has been a fight.

619
00:42:36,754 --> 00:42:41,059
I feel like we've been fighting the ocean,
fighting the currents, fighting the winds,

620
00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:44,162
fighting the little gremlins
in my head that are telling me

621
00:42:44,228 --> 00:42:46,130
that we're never gonna get there.

622
00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:51,702
[Lizanne] We thought we'd be
at the equator well over two weeks ago.

623
00:42:51,769 --> 00:42:56,607
It's us against the currents, and we can't
row any harder than we are already.

624
00:42:56,674 --> 00:43:00,344
Our hands are aching and just trying to...

625
00:43:00,611 --> 00:43:02,713
Trying to row as hard as we can.

626
00:43:02,780 --> 00:43:04,115
I think we're all...

627
00:43:04,182 --> 00:43:05,283
[sniffs]

628
00:43:05,783 --> 00:43:08,252
getting a little bit low.

629
00:43:15,726 --> 00:43:19,130
[Natalia] It's, um, day 42.

630
00:43:19,730 --> 00:43:23,034
We are still stuck
in the doldrums, literally.

631
00:43:24,135 --> 00:43:25,970
We're just having a look
at the chartplotter.

632
00:43:26,037 --> 00:43:28,272
We've got about, um...

633
00:43:28,339 --> 00:43:33,911
239 nautical miles to go
until we hit the equator.

634
00:43:34,378 --> 00:43:36,714
At the current speed
at which we're traveling,

635
00:43:36,781 --> 00:43:40,718
it will take us another 20 days
just to get to the equator.

636
00:43:41,152 --> 00:43:42,620
Um...

637
00:43:42,687 --> 00:43:44,222
How do you feel about that, LP?

638
00:43:44,288 --> 00:43:45,223
Great.

639
00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:48,893
[both laugh]

640
00:44:12,783 --> 00:44:14,318
[whale bellows]

641
00:44:19,790 --> 00:44:22,126
[Natalia] I'm so excited to see Samoa.

642
00:44:22,193 --> 00:44:25,730
-I've been waiting for this for a year.
-You have.

643
00:44:25,796 --> 00:44:28,432
This is why you joined the row,
to come to Samoa.

644
00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:29,967
Pretty much, to see Samoa.

645
00:44:30,034 --> 00:44:32,270
I thought,
"What a great way to get to Samoa."

646
00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:34,705
You've seen a lot of sights in your time.

647
00:44:38,242 --> 00:44:42,914
[Natalia] I look out into that ocean,
and my thoughts just stop.

648
00:44:42,980 --> 00:44:47,318
I don't know if that's because
I'm so used to spending time traveling

649
00:44:47,385 --> 00:44:49,253
and being on my own.

650
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:54,158
It's definitely the furthest outside
of my comfort zone I will ever have been,

651
00:44:54,225 --> 00:44:58,396
uh, in respect to the fact
that I've never rowed before.

652
00:45:01,132 --> 00:45:03,301
If I believed it was
a predominantly physical challenge,

653
00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:04,468
I wouldn't have applied.

654
00:45:04,735 --> 00:45:07,405
This challenge is 90 percent mental.

655
00:45:07,471 --> 00:45:12,076
And I always believe that you do
your most developing and growth

656
00:45:12,143 --> 00:45:14,245
when you're outside your comfort zone.

657
00:45:15,112 --> 00:45:18,916
When you put your mind to something,
anything is truly possible.

658
00:45:18,983 --> 00:45:19,984
And...

659
00:45:21,319 --> 00:45:22,420
I'm learning that.

660
00:45:26,290 --> 00:45:29,393
Just had this overwhelming feeling
come over me,

661
00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:32,863
where I just decided
that I just didn't want to row anymore.

662
00:45:32,930 --> 00:45:37,034
I just got so bored of the motion
of going forwards and backwards,

663
00:45:37,101 --> 00:45:40,271
forwards and backwards,
and forwards and backwards,

664
00:45:40,338 --> 00:45:42,239
so, I screamed out into the air.

665
00:45:42,306 --> 00:45:44,508
[screaming]

666
00:45:53,050 --> 00:45:57,221
The reason that I'm doing this row is
to test the strength of my human spirit.

667
00:45:57,288 --> 00:45:58,889
And to find...

668
00:45:59,857 --> 00:46:02,159
where that place is deep inside,

669
00:46:02,226 --> 00:46:06,364
where you have to dig deep
when things get tough.

670
00:46:10,101 --> 00:46:14,505
Things are just taking us a lot longer
than we anticipated.

671
00:46:15,373 --> 00:46:17,308
But it's these kind of moments,

672
00:46:18,342 --> 00:46:20,111
an amazing sky,

673
00:46:20,911 --> 00:46:22,380
four friends on a boat,

674
00:46:23,414 --> 00:46:25,783
and that makes it all all right!
[chuckles]

675
00:46:27,451 --> 00:46:28,986
[Laura] Very poignant moment.

676
00:46:29,053 --> 00:46:30,021
[Natalia] Why's that?

677
00:46:31,288 --> 00:46:32,556
'Cause we're near the equator!

678
00:46:32,823 --> 00:46:34,458
-Woo-hoo!
-Boop, boop!

679
00:46:34,525 --> 00:46:37,395
We've been waiting
for this moment for, uh...

680
00:46:38,162 --> 00:46:41,298
-Ever!
-Fifty-four days, I do believe.

681
00:46:41,365 --> 00:46:43,434
We're here.
That's all that flipping matters.

682
00:46:43,501 --> 00:46:44,869
[Natalia] Yeah. Exactly.

683
00:46:45,336 --> 00:46:46,971
[all] Three...

684
00:46:47,038 --> 00:46:48,172
[Natalia] Very slow countdown.

685
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:49,140
[all] Two...

686
00:46:50,307 --> 00:46:51,308
One.

687
00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:52,977
[all] Whoo!

688
00:46:53,044 --> 00:46:54,378
[Laura] The equator!

689
00:46:54,445 --> 00:46:56,981
We're at the equator!

690
00:46:57,048 --> 00:46:58,182
Whoo!

691
00:47:00,217 --> 00:47:02,586
We'd like to make a toast to Neptune.

692
00:47:03,287 --> 00:47:07,058
Thank you for getting us
to the equator safely.

693
00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:12,430
And your ocean has become
very special to all of us, so...

694
00:47:13,431 --> 00:47:14,298
cheers!

695
00:47:16,367 --> 00:47:19,270
Ooh! [speaks in Spanish]

696
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:23,074
And, please, will you make us
go quicker from here on.

697
00:47:23,140 --> 00:47:24,542
[all laugh]

698
00:47:33,984 --> 00:47:34,985
High five!

699
00:47:35,052 --> 00:47:36,120
High five!

700
00:48:03,447 --> 00:48:05,549
[Emma] When we crossed the equator,

701
00:48:05,616 --> 00:48:06,984
Tony sent us a message

702
00:48:07,051 --> 00:48:09,520
and he was like, "Congratulations,
you're the first team of four

703
00:48:09,587 --> 00:48:11,489
who has ever rowed across the equator."

704
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:14,325
We are self-supporting ourselves,
and we're this tiny little boat

705
00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:17,628
in this massive ocean,
and that's pretty special.

706
00:48:21,532 --> 00:48:23,534
[both cheering]

707
00:48:40,117 --> 00:48:43,087
After struggling with currents

708
00:48:43,154 --> 00:48:45,055
and wind

709
00:48:45,122 --> 00:48:47,358
and doldrums,

710
00:48:48,025 --> 00:48:50,361
we are now into the heat phase.

711
00:48:51,262 --> 00:48:55,966
It is ridiculously hot outside,
and we're just dripping with sweat.

712
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,270
It's almost, like, unbearably hot.

713
00:48:59,336 --> 00:49:01,539
Like, you can hardly breathe, it's so hot.

714
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,376
We're back in the cabin, and it's 99--

715
00:49:05,442 --> 00:49:07,311
Nine-point-nine degrees Fahrenheit

716
00:49:07,378 --> 00:49:10,447
and it feels cool,
which is never a good sign.

717
00:49:20,958 --> 00:49:21,992
[sighs]

718
00:49:23,427 --> 00:49:26,130
Just come in
from a two-hour rowing session.

719
00:49:28,399 --> 00:49:32,536
Possibly the hottest, uh,
I've ever been in my life.

720
00:49:33,537 --> 00:49:34,572
Fairly unbearable,

721
00:49:34,638 --> 00:49:37,508
just not knowing what to do with yourself.

722
00:49:53,190 --> 00:49:54,992
[computer panel beeps]

723
00:49:59,730 --> 00:50:04,568
[Emma] Today we got an e-mail from Tony
talking about our timeline.

724
00:50:04,635 --> 00:50:07,471
So, it's looking like it's going
to take us at least another 30 days,

725
00:50:07,538 --> 00:50:11,141
which kind of makes us another month
behind schedule.

726
00:50:13,143 --> 00:50:16,013
We had our little kind of chat
about it all together,

727
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,381
and Laura was saying:

728
00:50:18,249 --> 00:50:20,684
"We can't assume everyone
is okay with that

729
00:50:20,751 --> 00:50:23,387
and everyone is going to want
to get back in the boat in Samoa."

730
00:50:24,521 --> 00:50:27,791
-We're gonna be rowing at Christmas.
-Yeah, we are.

731
00:50:28,058 --> 00:50:29,727
Christmas on Doris!

732
00:50:30,594 --> 00:50:31,462
No.

733
00:50:32,329 --> 00:50:34,098
LP can't be rowing
on Christmas on Doris.

734
00:50:34,164 --> 00:50:35,332
I know.

735
00:50:43,340 --> 00:50:44,508
[Laura] It's actually my work.

736
00:50:45,509 --> 00:50:48,579
Part of why I'm here
is because of what I do with Paralympics

737
00:50:48,646 --> 00:50:52,583
and working with the Paralympic team
and British athletics.

738
00:50:53,651 --> 00:50:54,618
Um...

739
00:50:56,153 --> 00:50:56,820
And...

740
00:50:58,055 --> 00:51:01,292
you know,
this year is not a great year for me

741
00:51:01,358 --> 00:51:05,562
to have been out doing this row.
It was already a problem I postponed it.

742
00:51:05,629 --> 00:51:08,432
More of a problem myself.
My work are brilliant.

743
00:51:08,499 --> 00:51:10,701
They've been extremely supportive.

744
00:51:11,368 --> 00:51:14,805
Which is why it's even harder because
I just don't want to let the team down.

745
00:51:15,572 --> 00:51:17,675
But the problem is
I don't want to let that team down,

746
00:51:17,741 --> 00:51:22,413
and I don't want to let this team down.
I feel like I'm a little bit torn.

747
00:51:24,481 --> 00:51:27,217
And everything out here
is taking so much bloody longer

748
00:51:27,685 --> 00:51:29,386
and it's so unpredictable

749
00:51:29,453 --> 00:51:32,323
that I have no idea when
we're gonna finish this damn thing.

750
00:51:33,223 --> 00:51:36,827
The hardest thing is having to choose
between the row or work.

751
00:51:38,128 --> 00:51:40,864
Not finishing this row
and not being in Australia kills me.

752
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:44,168
So, it's basically...

753
00:51:45,869 --> 00:51:48,772
my immediate family of four
that are on this boat

754
00:51:48,839 --> 00:51:50,374
compared to...

755
00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:53,677
the whole British Athletics team,
I don't know.

756
00:52:04,655 --> 00:52:07,725
I don't know if I want to be rowing
on Christmas on Doris.

757
00:52:08,525 --> 00:52:10,728
I don't want to be rowing
on Christmas on Doris.

758
00:52:11,395 --> 00:52:13,430
But I don't want to not row
all the way to Australia.

759
00:52:13,497 --> 00:52:14,498
No, I know.

760
00:52:45,729 --> 00:52:48,866
[Lizanne] Before we set off on the row...

761
00:52:49,533 --> 00:52:53,537
Keith, our psychologist,
got each of us doing a family plan.

762
00:52:53,604 --> 00:52:57,174
It was really difficult to do
because you have to write

763
00:52:57,241 --> 00:52:59,943
a step-by-step plan
of how do you want to find out

764
00:53:00,210 --> 00:53:02,212
if something happens to your family.

765
00:53:02,546 --> 00:53:04,748
It was one of my fears
before I got on the boat

766
00:53:04,815 --> 00:53:08,318
that something might happen
to a family member

767
00:53:08,385 --> 00:53:09,686
or someone that I love,

768
00:53:10,220 --> 00:53:11,655
and that's happened.

769
00:53:11,722 --> 00:53:13,724
[crying]

770
00:53:15,626 --> 00:53:17,494
I received some news that,

771
00:53:17,561 --> 00:53:20,764
unfortunately, my uncle
has lost his fight with cancer,

772
00:53:21,932 --> 00:53:24,868
and I didn't expect that to happen
while I was on the boat.

773
00:53:26,470 --> 00:53:28,639
He was a remarkable man,

774
00:53:28,705 --> 00:53:32,376
and it breaks my heart
that I can't be there with them right now.

775
00:53:33,844 --> 00:53:34,812
And there's...

776
00:53:35,646 --> 00:53:38,382
a real sense of helplessness.

777
00:53:45,522 --> 00:53:47,558
I'm so sorry that I'm not there.

778
00:53:49,660 --> 00:53:53,297
All I really wanted to do was just go
for a walk and clear my head,

779
00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:54,631
and you can't.

780
00:53:54,698 --> 00:53:57,367
You're on that boat
and you can't get away.

781
00:53:58,769 --> 00:54:03,707
But what it has done
is it has really driven home to me

782
00:54:03,774 --> 00:54:05,242
why I'm out here

783
00:54:05,309 --> 00:54:06,944
and why we're doing what we're doing.

784
00:54:07,544 --> 00:54:09,847
We're helping someone fight a fight.

785
00:54:11,448 --> 00:54:12,549
It's given me a push,

786
00:54:12,616 --> 00:54:15,252
and it's made me work
that little bit harder

787
00:54:15,319 --> 00:54:17,254
to reach our destination.

788
00:54:19,456 --> 00:54:20,591
Life is fragile.

789
00:54:21,892 --> 00:54:25,262
That's why we're doing crazy things
like row an ocean,

790
00:54:25,896 --> 00:54:27,498
because you only have one life,

791
00:54:27,564 --> 00:54:30,400
so, you might as well
make the most of it.

792
00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:39,743
Oh, my God,
I can't believe I'm not there.

793
00:55:10,374 --> 00:55:12,609
We're a little bit worried
that we're gonna miss Samoa.

794
00:55:16,580 --> 00:55:20,350
Yeah, don't want to miss Samoa,
because the next stop would be Fiji,

795
00:55:20,417 --> 00:55:21,952
and that's another 500 miles.

796
00:55:22,019 --> 00:55:23,954
[Natalia] Yeah, 5-, 600 miles.

797
00:55:25,088 --> 00:55:26,690
There's a very strong westerly current

798
00:55:26,757 --> 00:55:28,825
and there's very strong winds
of 15 to 18 knots

799
00:55:28,892 --> 00:55:30,594
that are southeasterly.

800
00:55:31,662 --> 00:55:35,699
At this precise moment,
we're in fear of missing Samoa.

801
00:55:37,868 --> 00:55:43,340
Been struggling with just doing
the same thing every day

802
00:55:43,407 --> 00:55:46,577
and going so slowly.
It feels a bit endless at the moment.

803
00:55:47,477 --> 00:55:48,812
[woman over phone] What's going on?

804
00:55:48,879 --> 00:55:50,747
We're just getting caught
in the currents still.

805
00:55:50,814 --> 00:55:54,051
We're going completely west now, as well.
It's a nightmare.

806
00:55:55,385 --> 00:55:58,722
We're doing what we can.
We can only control the controllable.

807
00:56:09,933 --> 00:56:12,869
Leg two has been really difficult...

808
00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:15,806
um, for the majority of us on the boat.

809
00:56:15,872 --> 00:56:17,774
The monotony, the boredom.

810
00:56:18,442 --> 00:56:20,477
You know, Lizanne,
bless her, losing her uncle.

811
00:56:20,544 --> 00:56:22,479
I've had issues
with obviously the length of time

812
00:56:22,546 --> 00:56:25,882
we're now out here for
has impacted on my work.

813
00:56:26,483 --> 00:56:28,819
But one person in particular is Emma...

814
00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:32,522
who's for a few weeks now
has been in a really, really...

815
00:56:33,523 --> 00:56:35,926
difficult sort of place
and hasn't been sharing it.

816
00:56:36,693 --> 00:56:38,629
But you knew that something was wrong.

817
00:56:38,695 --> 00:56:39,896
She's my teammate.

818
00:56:40,397 --> 00:56:42,165
I want to make her happy,
I want to see her smile,

819
00:56:42,432 --> 00:56:43,634
I want to hear her laugh,

820
00:56:45,035 --> 00:56:46,903
and she's not doing any of those things,

821
00:56:46,970 --> 00:56:48,905
and I don't know what I can do to help.

822
00:56:57,581 --> 00:57:01,084
[Emma] I'm so tired right now.

823
00:57:01,151 --> 00:57:04,521
We've just been rowing so hard
every single shift

824
00:57:05,088 --> 00:57:07,557
and I've not got anything...

825
00:57:07,991 --> 00:57:08,859
Um...

826
00:57:09,626 --> 00:57:10,627
Anything left to give.

827
00:57:10,694 --> 00:57:14,197
Like, physically and mentally,
I'm just completely exhausted.

828
00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:17,034
And, um...

829
00:57:17,868 --> 00:57:21,204
I don't know how long we've still got
to go to Samoa. We keep...

830
00:57:22,105 --> 00:57:24,441
going a bit faster
and we think we're going to get there

831
00:57:24,508 --> 00:57:26,576
and then we slow down
and start going the wrong way.

832
00:57:28,712 --> 00:57:30,614
Being out on the oars
has always been where...

833
00:57:31,682 --> 00:57:33,617
I've been really happy and where...

834
00:57:33,684 --> 00:57:34,751
Um...

835
00:57:36,486 --> 00:57:37,587
[sighs]

836
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:40,824
I've started to really hate it.

837
00:57:40,891 --> 00:57:44,461
I've started to really hate every time
I have to get out on the oars and row.

838
00:57:45,896 --> 00:57:48,732
I've been really struggling.
I haven't been able to control the boat.

839
00:57:48,799 --> 00:57:51,568
It doesn't seem to matter what I do,
it doesn't make any difference.

840
00:57:53,904 --> 00:57:56,707
Rowing has been part of my life
for such a long time,

841
00:57:56,773 --> 00:57:58,575
like a really important part.

842
00:58:03,613 --> 00:58:06,883
If someone told me I never had
to row again, I would be really happy,

843
00:58:07,818 --> 00:58:09,786
and that makes me really sad because...

844
00:58:15,158 --> 00:58:18,895
we've still a long way to go,
another leg to get to Cairns,

845
00:58:19,663 --> 00:58:21,598
and I don't know if I can...

846
00:58:23,033 --> 00:58:23,900
Yeah.

847
00:59:02,172 --> 00:59:05,208
[Tony] Just getting the latest position.
I believe we are about two miles away

848
00:59:05,275 --> 00:59:07,811
but I just want to double-check
the little dot

849
00:59:07,878 --> 00:59:10,313
we're seeing on the horizon
is actually them.

850
00:59:12,649 --> 00:59:14,885
There they are,
right in the horizon there!

851
00:59:38,575 --> 00:59:41,745
[Laura] We have been battling
the currents, the winds.

852
00:59:41,812 --> 00:59:44,181
We were extremely concerned at points

853
00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:46,883
that we may have to overshoot Samoa,

854
00:59:46,950 --> 00:59:50,187
which was devastating to us
that that might have been the case.

855
00:59:50,253 --> 00:59:53,790
And I think the thought of that
made us dig even deeper

856
00:59:53,857 --> 00:59:55,158
than we thought we could do,

857
00:59:55,992 --> 00:59:59,663
and we powered as hard as we could,
and we were absolutely--

858
00:59:59,729 --> 01:00:02,899
I think we left everything on the boat,
everything on the ocean, just to get here,

859
01:00:02,966 --> 01:00:03,934
and I'm so glad we did,

860
01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:07,838
because this would have been a devastation
to have missed this.

861
01:00:08,305 --> 01:00:11,241
We are very proud to be here
and to share this with you.

862
01:00:20,717 --> 01:00:22,719
[crowd cheering]

863
01:00:25,822 --> 01:00:30,193
For Emma,
this journey was a really big challenge

864
01:00:30,260 --> 01:00:33,930
because she wanted to be able
to control the boat.

865
01:00:34,998 --> 01:00:39,769
And one person cannot control
a one-ton boat.

866
01:00:39,836 --> 01:00:42,339
You know, it's physically impossible.

867
01:00:46,376 --> 01:00:49,179
[Tony] When you gear yourself up
for being at sea for 60 days

868
01:00:49,246 --> 01:00:51,214
and you're out there for over 90,

869
01:00:51,281 --> 01:00:53,250
it's got to affect how you feel,
hasn't it?

870
01:00:56,987 --> 01:00:59,222
[Lizanne] When rowing wasn't fun
for her anymore...

871
01:01:00,223 --> 01:01:02,726
it was really hard to watch because...

872
01:01:03,727 --> 01:01:06,363
it wouldn't make her happy,
it would make her frustrated.

873
01:01:07,230 --> 01:01:09,399
I hope that she finds her happy place.

874
01:01:12,702 --> 01:01:17,707
What she's really needed to do
is actually step back and take stock

875
01:01:17,774 --> 01:01:21,811
of not only what she's doing
but who she is as a person, really,

876
01:01:21,878 --> 01:01:27,217
because I think, you know, when
the essence of who you are is questioned,

877
01:01:28,151 --> 01:01:30,921
then where do you go from there?

878
01:01:36,226 --> 01:01:37,928
[Laura] Getting to the finish and knowing

879
01:01:38,395 --> 01:01:40,697
that you've achieved
what you've set out to achieve...

880
01:01:40,764 --> 01:01:42,232
You know, it's four years of hard work.

881
01:01:42,299 --> 01:01:45,235
I mean, to walk away from it
any sooner than that,

882
01:01:45,302 --> 01:01:47,137
I would just be devastated.

883
01:01:47,204 --> 01:01:50,006
So, to me, Australia is home
and nothing ever before that.

884
01:01:50,774 --> 01:01:52,042
[both shout]

885
01:02:04,788 --> 01:02:07,390
[Natalia] That is like a big blooming...

886
01:02:07,457 --> 01:02:09,793
-[Lizanne] Rhino horn.
-...rhino horn.

887
01:02:15,065 --> 01:02:18,802
I can't believe I'm leaving.
I can't believe this day has come.

888
01:02:18,868 --> 01:02:22,172
I've built a really special bond
with each of you.

889
01:02:22,239 --> 01:02:25,175
Best of luck for your last leg.

890
01:02:25,242 --> 01:02:28,245
You've got an amazing new asset
to the team.

891
01:02:28,311 --> 01:02:30,013
Meg, good luck.

892
01:02:32,983 --> 01:02:37,887
The value of a team is so much more
than I've ever imagined.

893
01:02:37,954 --> 01:02:41,191
And we will forever be the girls
who rowed together.

894
01:02:55,972 --> 01:02:58,441
[Meg] My name is Meg Dyos, and I'm 25.

895
01:02:58,508 --> 01:03:01,244
No one tells you when you finish uni
it's not very exciting.

896
01:03:01,311 --> 01:03:03,246
It's like, what do you want to do
with your life?

897
01:03:03,313 --> 01:03:04,981
It's always, you have to have an answer.

898
01:03:05,048 --> 01:03:08,118
When you don't have an answer,
it's like, "Oh, oh, dear."

899
01:03:08,852 --> 01:03:11,187
And that's where it's like,
"Is there something wrong with me

900
01:03:11,254 --> 01:03:13,290
that I don't know what I want to do
with my life?"

901
01:03:13,356 --> 01:03:14,557
I've never rowed before.

902
01:03:14,824 --> 01:03:17,827
I've never been on a rowing boat.
I've never been in the ocean.

903
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:21,865
In all honesty, I have absolutely
no idea why they chose me.

904
01:03:21,931 --> 01:03:24,000
I mean, I couldn't be happier
that they chose me,

905
01:03:24,067 --> 01:03:26,202
and I really hope there is something
they've seen in me

906
01:03:26,269 --> 01:03:28,338
that can help us get to Australia.

907
01:03:28,405 --> 01:03:29,439
I mean, no pressure.

908
01:03:34,477 --> 01:03:37,580
[Tony] The season is ticking on,
and we need to get them to Australia.

909
01:03:37,847 --> 01:03:39,883
The fact that they're stopping
and rowing again,

910
01:03:39,949 --> 01:03:42,185
I've never had to do before
with a team of rowers.

911
01:03:42,252 --> 01:03:44,954
I struggle to understand
how hard that is gonna be

912
01:03:45,021 --> 01:03:46,556
for them to get back on the boat.

913
01:03:47,891 --> 01:03:51,861
[all] ♪ Goodbye, my feleni ♪

914
01:03:52,529 --> 01:03:54,531
[singing in Samoan]

915
01:04:23,293 --> 01:04:30,967
♪ Oh, I never will forget you ♪

916
01:04:31,034 --> 01:04:33,036
[singing in Samoan]

917
01:04:49,586 --> 01:04:53,423
[Emma] I didn't expect the challenge
of the row

918
01:04:53,490 --> 01:04:56,326
to be the fact
that I would stop enjoying it.

919
01:04:56,393 --> 01:04:58,995
This is why I wanted to do the row.
I wanted to challenge myself

920
01:04:59,062 --> 01:05:00,430
and I wanted to see if I could do it.

921
01:05:01,631 --> 01:05:05,034
We set out to row to Australia,
and if it takes us nine months,

922
01:05:05,101 --> 01:05:06,636
then it takes us nine months.

923
01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:12,542
We're doing it. Uh, as hard as it is,
we're actually doing it.

924
01:05:20,583 --> 01:05:24,421
Just had a bit of a hit that this
is the last time we step on Doris,

925
01:05:24,487 --> 01:05:26,656
the last leg, what we've been through.

926
01:05:26,923 --> 01:05:29,292
Feeling quite overwhelmed,
to be honest, at the moment,

927
01:05:30,126 --> 01:05:31,094
in a good way.

928
01:05:32,495 --> 01:05:36,566
[Natalia] Meg has no idea

929
01:05:36,633 --> 01:05:39,002
what she's gotten herself in for,

930
01:05:39,402 --> 01:05:41,237
and I'm quite looking forward to it.

931
01:05:46,509 --> 01:05:48,545
[Emma] Okay, Meggy,
what are you having for dinner?

932
01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:50,046
Beef curry!

933
01:05:50,113 --> 01:05:53,450
It's my first try. It's actually
a bit hot, so, I'm going to blow it.

934
01:05:54,350 --> 01:05:57,020
I'm really excited. I think I'm going
to like it. It smells great.

935
01:06:00,523 --> 01:06:01,524
Okay.

936
01:06:01,591 --> 01:06:02,692
I see why you don't like it.

937
01:06:02,959 --> 01:06:03,993
[both laugh]

938
01:06:07,263 --> 01:06:09,532
[Emma] We're training Meggy
in how to row in big waves.

939
01:06:10,233 --> 01:06:11,267
She's doing very well.

940
01:06:14,471 --> 01:06:16,139
[Meg] There's just one thing...

941
01:06:16,206 --> 01:06:20,009
I really want to try and get better at it,
and it's just the routine.

942
01:06:20,543 --> 01:06:22,679
Just... everything is routine.

943
01:06:23,346 --> 01:06:25,315
Like you never even know what the time is.

944
01:06:25,381 --> 01:06:27,617
You don't have a clue
what the time is ever.

945
01:06:28,585 --> 01:06:32,989
What Meg doesn't realize still is
that time has no meaning on Doris.

946
01:06:33,556 --> 01:06:35,391
It's just two-hour shifts.

947
01:06:35,458 --> 01:06:36,993
[Natalia] Being out here, I know

948
01:06:37,060 --> 01:06:38,661
when it's daylight,
I know when it's night,

949
01:06:38,728 --> 01:06:40,630
and nothing else really matters.

950
01:06:40,697 --> 01:06:44,300
When it's sunrise the day begins,
and when it's sunset the day ends,

951
01:06:44,367 --> 01:06:46,636
and in between you just row
or you don't row.

952
01:06:48,605 --> 01:06:50,607
[speaking indistinctly]

953
01:06:52,375 --> 01:06:54,544
[Meg] Those first few days, oh, my God,

954
01:06:54,611 --> 01:06:57,480
the waves were so huge
and we were being pushed off our seats,

955
01:06:57,547 --> 01:07:00,283
which is, by the way, one of the scariest
things that could happen.

956
01:07:00,350 --> 01:07:04,187
Especially when you only learned to row
about two days previous to leaving Samoa.

957
01:07:06,222 --> 01:07:08,558
I was just so scared, and the girls,
none of them seem scared.

958
01:07:08,625 --> 01:07:12,428
It was just me, and I felt a bit alone.
I felt really alone, actually.

959
01:07:12,495 --> 01:07:15,665
That's the thing.
I'm the most underqualified rower by far.

960
01:07:15,732 --> 01:07:17,467
I know the bare minimum,

961
01:07:18,134 --> 01:07:19,402
and I'm kind of happy with that.

962
01:07:36,119 --> 01:07:37,620
Leg three, day ten.

963
01:07:38,154 --> 01:07:39,556
Time is flying.

964
01:07:39,622 --> 01:07:42,191
-Flying. We're going fast still.
-[laughs nervously]

965
01:07:42,258 --> 01:07:44,427
We're not really sure
what to do with this.

966
01:07:44,494 --> 01:07:46,262
-We keep waiting for it to disappear.
-Yeah.

967
01:07:46,329 --> 01:07:49,132
Every time we get out on the oars,
we think we'll be going slow again,

968
01:07:49,198 --> 01:07:51,768
but so far...
we're still going quite fast.

969
01:07:52,602 --> 01:07:56,105
[Natalia] We're traveling
at like an amazing speed

970
01:07:56,172 --> 01:07:59,776
and in the right direction,
which is just unheard of.

971
01:08:06,516 --> 01:08:08,785
We've done seven miles
in the last two hours.

972
01:08:08,851 --> 01:08:09,719
Woo-hoo!

973
01:08:09,786 --> 01:08:13,823
That's definitely the most miles
that has been done on Doris.

974
01:08:23,499 --> 01:08:27,804
We are less than 350 miles away
from Vanuatu,

975
01:08:27,870 --> 01:08:30,506
which will be pretty much halfway,
which is quite exciting.

976
01:09:01,704 --> 01:09:05,341
[Meg] Waking up every two hours
at night, literally it feels like

977
01:09:05,408 --> 01:09:09,379
you've been hit by a sledgehammer
and you just--

978
01:09:09,445 --> 01:09:11,748
You don't have any choice.
That's the whole thing about this.

979
01:09:11,814 --> 01:09:14,183
It doesn't matter how bad you're feeling.

980
01:09:14,250 --> 01:09:16,519
You don't have a choice.
You have to get back on the oars

981
01:09:16,586 --> 01:09:18,254
and you have to row.

982
01:09:19,455 --> 01:09:21,457
[wind roaring]

983
01:09:25,828 --> 01:09:31,167
[Natalia] We've just come in from I'd say
one of the most hectic shifts so far.

984
01:09:31,634 --> 01:09:35,238
Big, massive, massive waves.

985
01:09:35,304 --> 01:09:38,875
I don't think I've had a less fun shift
on Doris so far.

986
01:09:39,909 --> 01:09:41,577
These three girls.

987
01:09:42,812 --> 01:09:45,448
It makes me a bit emotional
when I even think about them

988
01:09:45,515 --> 01:09:47,250
and just... how far they've gone.

989
01:09:47,316 --> 01:09:50,219
And I feel like in each of them,
I've seen...

990
01:09:51,354 --> 01:09:52,755
I've seen some sort of pain.

991
01:09:52,822 --> 01:09:55,692
And you can just tell
that they've been at sea for a long time.

992
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,936
[Emma] We've been living in this
for eight months.

993
01:10:07,203 --> 01:10:11,474
It's become all that we've known, really.

994
01:10:11,541 --> 01:10:14,711
-This is just life.
-It's such a strange existence.

995
01:10:14,777 --> 01:10:17,980
Eight months is such a long time
to do something.

996
01:10:19,949 --> 01:10:22,485
I wonder what we'll be like
when we get back to land.

997
01:10:22,552 --> 01:10:27,256
I wonder how quickly
we'll adapt to sort of so much noise

998
01:10:27,323 --> 01:10:30,460
-and pollution and people.
-People.

999
01:10:30,526 --> 01:10:33,529
[Emma] Life will be so complicated
after this.

1000
01:10:34,797 --> 01:10:37,867
[Natalia] There's definitely
a big part of me that wants to hold on

1001
01:10:37,934 --> 01:10:39,936
and wants to stay out here

1002
01:10:40,002 --> 01:10:44,540
because of the utter beauty
of where we are.

1003
01:10:44,607 --> 01:10:46,843
There's just nothing like it.

1004
01:10:47,810 --> 01:10:48,945
The only way I can describe it

1005
01:10:49,011 --> 01:10:53,816
for me is that it's been ultimate freedom
out here.

1006
01:10:53,883 --> 01:10:56,819
Just freedom from...

1007
01:10:57,720 --> 01:10:59,622
societal norms,

1008
01:10:59,689 --> 01:11:02,992
freedom from expectation,

1009
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:04,660
from the ego...

1010
01:11:04,727 --> 01:11:07,597
It's just been an incredible opportunity

1011
01:11:07,663 --> 01:11:11,701
to delve so deeply within your soul.

1012
01:11:17,807 --> 01:11:20,576
[Emma] So, yeah, it's crazy.
I can't believe it's nearly Christmas.

1013
01:11:20,643 --> 01:11:22,678
And when we left the U.K.,

1014
01:11:22,745 --> 01:11:25,681
it was the very beginning of April.
It's absolutely mental.

1015
01:11:25,748 --> 01:11:27,416
I can't believe we're still out here.

1016
01:11:27,483 --> 01:11:31,020
And I don't know how we're still doing
what we're doing every day, every shift,

1017
01:11:31,287 --> 01:11:32,722
but we are.

1018
01:11:32,789 --> 01:11:33,856
[bell rings]

1019
01:11:36,859 --> 01:11:38,461
[Laura] Friends and family and stuff

1020
01:11:38,528 --> 01:11:41,330
are all at home
celebrating Christmas and, um,

1021
01:11:41,397 --> 01:11:45,802
yeah, I just don't feel very Christmasy
even though we've got decorations up

1022
01:11:45,868 --> 01:11:48,638
and we're listening
to Christmas carols and stuff and...

1023
01:11:49,438 --> 01:11:52,975
Um, yeah, I just found it quite difficult,
really, being away.

1024
01:11:53,042 --> 01:11:55,378
Didn't realize how difficult I'd find it.

1025
01:11:55,444 --> 01:11:58,514
Hi, Auntie Mary. How are you?
Happy Christmas!

1026
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,696
Mom, the signal's not very good.
I can't hear you very well.

1027
01:12:15,965 --> 01:12:17,767
Oh, for fuck's sake.

1028
01:12:19,101 --> 01:12:22,371
The signal isn't very good.
I can't hear you.

1029
01:12:28,411 --> 01:12:30,112
Jesus Christ... Ugh.

1030
01:12:30,780 --> 01:12:33,916
-[Meg] Do you want to plug it in?
-Oh, don't even get me started.

1031
01:12:41,657 --> 01:12:42,792
[Meg] At home at the moment...

1032
01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:44,627
Oh, yeah, it's Christmas Day at home.

1033
01:12:44,694 --> 01:12:48,531
It's about 3 p.m.,
which for me is the time when, uh...

1034
01:12:48,598 --> 01:12:50,633
It's main-course time. Main course.

1035
01:12:50,700 --> 01:12:52,935
It's roast-potatoes time, let's face it.

1036
01:12:53,002 --> 01:12:55,004
-It's roast potatoes and gravy.
-Yeah.

1037
01:12:55,071 --> 01:12:57,006
Um, being out here's way better.

1038
01:12:57,073 --> 01:13:00,042
We've got our socks on.
I'm in a wet bed sheet.

1039
01:13:00,109 --> 01:13:01,878
Soggy sheet. [laughs]

1040
01:13:12,054 --> 01:13:16,125
Ho, ho, ho,
and welcome to Christmas on Doris.

1041
01:13:25,468 --> 01:13:27,637
[inaudible dialogue]

1042
01:13:40,650 --> 01:13:43,419
[all] ♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

1043
01:13:43,486 --> 01:13:45,755
♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

1044
01:13:45,821 --> 01:13:47,924
♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

1045
01:13:47,990 --> 01:13:50,860
♪ And a happy New Year ♪

1046
01:14:01,704 --> 01:14:04,206
[all] Eight, seven, six...

1047
01:14:04,874 --> 01:14:09,812
five, four, three, two, one...

1048
01:14:09,879 --> 01:14:12,181
Happy New Year!

1049
01:14:12,448 --> 01:14:14,650
Whoo!

1050
01:14:16,152 --> 01:14:18,020
Happy New Year!

1051
01:14:25,494 --> 01:14:27,863
[Laura] Good morning, world, it is...

1052
01:14:28,998 --> 01:14:29,999
the 1st of January.

1053
01:14:30,666 --> 01:14:35,705
This is definitely one of the best ways
to bring in a new year.

1054
01:14:36,706 --> 01:14:39,041
In the middle of this beautiful,
wonderful, huge,

1055
01:14:39,108 --> 01:14:41,644
enormous, expansive ocean.

1056
01:14:48,250 --> 01:14:53,656
It is day 55, and in my prediction,
we have 15 days to go.

1057
01:14:53,723 --> 01:14:55,658
In yours we have 25.

1058
01:14:55,725 --> 01:14:56,859
Let's hope you're right.

1059
01:14:56,926 --> 01:14:58,794
The food is 13.

1060
01:15:12,508 --> 01:15:15,644
Four hundred and ninety-eight miles to go.

1061
01:15:18,948 --> 01:15:20,783
[Emma] We had such a good start
to this leg,

1062
01:15:20,850 --> 01:15:22,752
and everyone got really overexcited.

1063
01:15:22,818 --> 01:15:26,756
Our parents booked their flights
to Australia to come meet us,

1064
01:15:26,822 --> 01:15:29,525
and then
it's all gone kind of horribly wrong.

1065
01:15:30,059 --> 01:15:32,895
This precise moment,
I'm completely over it.

1066
01:15:33,929 --> 01:15:36,265
My hip and back have really flared up.

1067
01:15:45,741 --> 01:15:50,713
Over 215 days now at sea in total,
not including our stop-offs...

1068
01:15:52,214 --> 01:15:55,251
having rowed over 7000 flipping miles...

1069
01:15:56,652 --> 01:16:00,890
and been out here for nearly nine months,
it's starting to take its toll just a bit.

1070
01:16:02,558 --> 01:16:05,961
I'm so looking forward to getting to
that finish line, you would not believe.

1071
01:16:08,297 --> 01:16:12,601
Ugh. I just really want to get home.

1072
01:16:34,757 --> 01:16:36,659
[Natalia] The last few days have been

1073
01:16:36,725 --> 01:16:41,964
a little bit of a struggle.
Not only are we in a confined space,

1074
01:16:42,031 --> 01:16:43,732
we're sleep-deprived.

1075
01:16:43,799 --> 01:16:46,001
We're quite often in physical pain.

1076
01:16:46,068 --> 01:16:48,871
They're cumulative,
and they start to take their toll.

1077
01:16:49,772 --> 01:16:52,074
-[Laura] What's going on, Megs?
-I'm tired.

1078
01:16:52,741 --> 01:16:55,144
I'm really tired and I can't stay awake.

1079
01:16:55,211 --> 01:16:58,747
And I feel like I can't get
the tiredness away,

1080
01:16:58,814 --> 01:17:01,884
because there's no time in the day
to catch up on sleep.

1081
01:17:08,958 --> 01:17:11,694
[Emma] We're gonna run out
of meals soon.

1082
01:17:12,294 --> 01:17:15,131
Which means we've gotta do 50 miles
from tomorrow onwards.

1083
01:17:16,398 --> 01:17:17,933
Okay, we might.

1084
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,036
Hmm, I reckon it will take one
or two days longer than that.

1085
01:17:21,904 --> 01:17:23,005
One or two?

1086
01:17:23,072 --> 01:17:23,939
Hopefully, yeah.

1087
01:17:24,006 --> 01:17:26,008
So, you think we might have
five days without meals?

1088
01:17:26,075 --> 01:17:27,209
Yeah.

1089
01:17:30,713 --> 01:17:34,216
[Natalia] We're, like, starving.
We're starving, starving.

1090
01:17:34,283 --> 01:17:37,186
It feels like we haven't eaten for ages.

1091
01:17:37,253 --> 01:17:38,654
Forever.

1092
01:17:38,721 --> 01:17:40,022
The last thing I had was M&Ms.

1093
01:17:40,089 --> 01:17:44,727
Oh, no, I had a packet of M&Ms
and this morning a bag of nuts.

1094
01:17:44,793 --> 01:17:46,896
[Natalia] Nuts, we had nuts a while ago.

1095
01:17:58,174 --> 01:18:02,845
So, I've just come into the forecabin
after a sunset shift with Nat.

1096
01:18:03,445 --> 01:18:05,414
Something's gone wrong
with one of our batteries.

1097
01:18:05,681 --> 01:18:09,218
They both drained completely
and ran really low on power,

1098
01:18:09,285 --> 01:18:13,255
so, we had to switch everything off
and navigate just using our compass.

1099
01:18:13,322 --> 01:18:16,292
We haven't really got power to do
anything else, so, for the last few days

1100
01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:21,797
we've been hand-pumping water using
our emergency backup water maker.

1101
01:18:21,864 --> 01:18:26,869
So, in our two-hour rest shifts,
we've been having to spend an hour of that

1102
01:18:26,936 --> 01:18:29,738
sitting out in the heat and the sunshine

1103
01:18:29,805 --> 01:18:33,943
pumping water,
which is actually surprisingly hard work.

1104
01:18:34,009 --> 01:18:35,044
It's so painfully slow.

1105
01:18:35,110 --> 01:18:38,747
So, our electric water maker makes
30 liters of water an hour,

1106
01:18:38,814 --> 01:18:42,051
and our hand pump makes
about three liters of water an hour,

1107
01:18:42,117 --> 01:18:46,755
and that's if you don't rest or drink
or do anything while you're going, so...

1108
01:18:46,822 --> 01:18:50,226
Obviously, the longer that we're out here,
we're getting into cyclone season

1109
01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:51,727
and that's not ideal.

1110
01:18:51,794 --> 01:18:53,862
The winds are getting
less and less favorable.

1111
01:18:53,929 --> 01:18:56,131
The risk of cyclones is getting higher.

1112
01:18:56,198 --> 01:18:58,334
We're definitely not as strong
as we used to be.

1113
01:19:10,179 --> 01:19:12,915
[Tony] You can make landfall on a beach
to complete the record.

1114
01:19:13,382 --> 01:19:15,184
Looks like it's our only choice.

1115
01:19:17,186 --> 01:19:18,454
How close are they?

1116
01:19:19,188 --> 01:19:21,023
They're within two miles.

1117
01:19:21,090 --> 01:19:22,858
They're about a mile and a half away.

1118
01:19:22,925 --> 01:19:24,460
Mile and a half away.

1119
01:19:29,531 --> 01:19:33,535
[Natalia] We're about 20 miles away
from Cairns,

1120
01:19:33,802 --> 01:19:37,940
and this should be one
of the best moments of the trip.

1121
01:19:38,007 --> 01:19:43,779
Yet, as always seems to happen,
we get thrown another challenge.

1122
01:19:48,150 --> 01:19:50,286
We're fighting wind now and current.

1123
01:19:50,352 --> 01:19:53,355
And it doesn't look likely
that we're going to make the marina

1124
01:19:53,422 --> 01:19:55,557
where we're supposed to sort of arrive.

1125
01:19:55,824 --> 01:19:58,193
Where we should have actually arrived
two days ago.

1126
01:19:59,094 --> 01:20:01,330
So, we have one last option,

1127
01:20:01,397 --> 01:20:06,068
which is to get to landfall,
so, it's not the marina, but it's land.

1128
01:20:06,135 --> 01:20:09,104
And that will at least mean
it's a successful expedition.

1129
01:20:11,807 --> 01:20:14,209
Due to adverse currents and lack of food,

1130
01:20:14,276 --> 01:20:17,346
we have until sunrise tomorrow

1131
01:20:18,147 --> 01:20:19,882
to make that landfall.

1132
01:20:19,948 --> 01:20:21,950
Otherwise we may need to be rescued.

1133
01:20:26,055 --> 01:20:28,157
It's just... [sniffs]

1134
01:20:30,159 --> 01:20:32,528
so near but yet so fricking far.

1135
01:20:33,529 --> 01:20:34,897
Like how...

1136
01:20:36,932 --> 01:20:38,467
the project could just be...

1137
01:20:39,968 --> 01:20:43,972
disqualified in the last 20 miles
because we can't reach land.

1138
01:20:48,310 --> 01:20:52,147
[Natalia] This is giving 110 percent
into every stroke,

1139
01:20:52,214 --> 01:20:56,352
which we're not too sure
if it's sustainable or not, to be honest.

1140
01:20:59,621 --> 01:21:05,627
Over 8000 nautical miles
from America to Australia...

1141
01:21:06,462 --> 01:21:09,031
and all that matters is

1142
01:21:09,098 --> 01:21:14,303
the last 2.15 nautical miles.

1143
01:21:14,370 --> 01:21:17,072
This is it. This is the final push.

1144
01:21:17,906 --> 01:21:19,108
We can do this.

1145
01:21:31,420 --> 01:21:32,588
[Laura] We're here.

1146
01:21:33,489 --> 01:21:37,259
I can see land out the window.
Like, that's Australia.

1147
01:21:39,561 --> 01:21:43,899
And it's really bizarre to think
of everything that we've gone through

1148
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:46,335
for four years.

1149
01:21:46,402 --> 01:21:48,437
Four years of relentless...

1150
01:21:49,538 --> 01:21:52,441
not giving up, of persevering...

1151
01:21:53,375 --> 01:21:57,146
of just believing in something
so strongly...

1152
01:21:57,212 --> 01:21:59,615
to make it happen, and it's here.

1153
01:22:04,086 --> 01:22:06,989
For the expedition to be complete,

1154
01:22:07,055 --> 01:22:09,992
we needed to go from mainland America
to mainland Australia.

1155
01:22:11,527 --> 01:22:14,696
And the thing is currents and wind
have not been in our favor lately.

1156
01:22:14,963 --> 01:22:15,931
So...

1157
01:22:15,998 --> 01:22:19,034
instead of rowing into the marina,
which is taking us way too long,

1158
01:22:19,568 --> 01:22:22,104
and we've just been
caught by the currents,

1159
01:22:22,504 --> 01:22:26,041
we decided to bring her in
to a beach on the mainland,

1160
01:22:26,108 --> 01:22:30,145
and then, very kindly, sort of a couple
of Australians that live here

1161
01:22:30,212 --> 01:22:33,182
have offered then that they would tow us
round to the marina.

1162
01:22:38,187 --> 01:22:41,557
All that matters now is planting our feet
on the shore of Australia

1163
01:22:41,623 --> 01:22:43,258
and making history.

1164
01:22:52,434 --> 01:22:54,069
[Tony] The girls landed on a beach

1165
01:22:54,136 --> 01:22:56,305
so they could claim
the land-to-land unassisted record.

1166
01:23:03,345 --> 01:23:05,280
They then had to get back on Doris,

1167
01:23:05,347 --> 01:23:07,149
row back out,
and be towed into the marina,

1168
01:23:07,216 --> 01:23:09,685
where all their family and friends
were waiting.

1169
01:24:16,618 --> 01:24:19,221
[all] We did it!

1170
01:24:29,665 --> 01:24:32,601
[Laura] All I kept thinking about is,
one day someone is going to do this.

1171
01:24:32,668 --> 01:24:35,404
So, what's gonna make them
be able to do it over you guys?

1172
01:24:35,470 --> 01:24:36,838
It's only the fact of digging deep

1173
01:24:37,105 --> 01:24:40,208
and just keep getting back up
every time you get knocked down.

1174
01:24:40,275 --> 01:24:44,413
I feel I could be a bit on edge and either
cry or laugh, not sure which way yet.

1175
01:24:45,447 --> 01:24:47,082
[Meg] The Coxless Crew

1176
01:24:47,149 --> 01:24:49,518
is the thing I've felt
the most passionate about in my life.

1177
01:24:50,218 --> 01:24:53,221
I feel like it's given me massive purpose.
I don't know what it is yet,

1178
01:24:53,288 --> 01:24:55,424
I really don't, but that doesn't scare me.

1179
01:25:02,698 --> 01:25:08,103
It's been nine months.
Nine months since we left San Francisco

1180
01:25:08,170 --> 01:25:10,439
and we rowed our little Doris
under the Golden Gate Bridge,

1181
01:25:10,505 --> 01:25:13,442
not really knowing
what we were letting ourselves in for.

1182
01:25:13,508 --> 01:25:15,644
I don't think I ever found it
as my happy place again,

1183
01:25:15,711 --> 01:25:18,180
but when I think back
to being on the boat,

1184
01:25:18,246 --> 01:25:21,416
I'm going to remember the waves
and the skies and the stars

1185
01:25:21,483 --> 01:25:23,185
and not the struggles.

1186
01:25:23,251 --> 01:25:25,854
The moments that are gonna stay with me
are all gonna be positive ones.

1187
01:25:26,822 --> 01:25:29,725
[Tony] I'm going to drop the rope off,
you pull it in.

1188
01:25:35,330 --> 01:25:37,199
Part of history!

1189
01:25:37,265 --> 01:25:38,900
Couldn't have done it without you!

1190
01:25:39,167 --> 01:25:41,803
[Natalia] You know,
I've never got to know people

1191
01:25:41,870 --> 01:25:44,906
so completely and so intimately,

1192
01:25:45,173 --> 01:25:49,811
and I cannot wait to celebrate

1193
01:25:49,878 --> 01:25:55,484
and actually appreciate the enormity
of this accomplishment once it's done.

1194
01:26:05,394 --> 01:26:06,762
[crowd cheering]

1195
01:26:13,268 --> 01:26:14,536
[Andra Day's "Rise Up" playing]

1196
01:26:14,603 --> 01:26:17,272
♪ You're broken down and tired ♪

1197
01:26:18,407 --> 01:26:21,877
♪ Of living life on a merry-go-round ♪

1198
01:26:22,444 --> 01:26:25,480
♪ And you can't find the fighter ♪

1199
01:26:26,415 --> 01:26:29,451
♪ But I see it in you
So, we gonna walk it out ♪

1200
01:26:29,518 --> 01:26:36,224
♪ And move mountains ♪

1201
01:26:36,758 --> 01:26:38,226
♪ We gonna walk it out ♪

1202
01:26:38,293 --> 01:26:44,332
♪ And move mountains ♪

1203
01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:49,538
♪ And I'll rise up
I'll rise like the day ♪

1204
01:26:49,604 --> 01:26:53,642
♪ I'll rise up
I'll rise unafraid ♪

1205
01:26:53,709 --> 01:26:55,544
♪ I'll rise up ♪

1206
01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:59,948
♪ And I'll do it a thousand times again ♪

1207
01:27:01,717 --> 01:27:05,754
♪ And I'll rise up
High like the waves ♪

1208
01:27:05,821 --> 01:27:09,891
♪ I'll rise up
In spite of the ache ♪

1209
01:27:09,958 --> 01:27:11,593
♪ I'll rise up ♪

1210
01:27:12,327 --> 01:27:15,897
♪ And I'll do it a thousand times again ♪

1211
01:27:15,964 --> 01:27:19,234
I hope that people understand
we weren't ocean rowers.

1212
01:27:19,301 --> 01:27:22,704
We weren't people that had done loads
of amazing things before.

1213
01:27:22,771 --> 01:27:26,475
And that didn't stop us
from having a dream that was pretty big

1214
01:27:26,541 --> 01:27:27,809
and from achieving it.

1215
01:27:29,678 --> 01:27:31,379
[Sara crying] They're phenomenal girls.

1216
01:27:32,981 --> 01:27:35,317
And I'm so proud to be the mom
of one of them.

1217
01:27:35,717 --> 01:27:37,686
♪ We will rise ♪

1218
01:27:37,753 --> 01:27:38,987
♪ We will rise ♪

1219
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:41,590
♪ Oh, we will rise ♪

1220
01:27:41,656 --> 01:27:46,294
♪ Oh, whoa ♪

1221
01:27:46,361 --> 01:27:49,498
♪ We'll rise ♪

1222
01:27:50,532 --> 01:27:52,267
♪ I'll rise up ♪

1223
01:27:52,334 --> 01:27:54,402
[Natalia] Everybody has the power
within themselves

1224
01:27:54,469 --> 01:27:57,739
to achieve greatness,
however that looks for them.

1225
01:27:57,806 --> 01:28:01,643
I know now that anything
I want to do in life,

1226
01:28:01,710 --> 01:28:03,478
I will be able to do.

1227
01:28:07,048 --> 01:28:11,686
[Babs] Life is there to live
and not to just exist,

1228
01:28:11,753 --> 01:28:13,855
and she hopefully has shown that, really.

1229
01:28:15,624 --> 01:28:17,526
[Laura] Every day
that I stepped onto the boat,

1230
01:28:17,592 --> 01:28:20,529
I don't think a day that's gone past
I've not thought about the finish.

1231
01:28:20,595 --> 01:28:23,565
But now I realize
it was all about the journey.

1232
01:28:25,567 --> 01:28:27,836
[Emma] The quote goes
that you can never cross an ocean

1233
01:28:27,903 --> 01:28:30,505
unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore.

1234
01:28:30,572 --> 01:28:31,673
To me now it means

1235
01:28:31,740 --> 01:28:36,478
whatever the shore is next time,
not be afraid to row away from it.

1236
01:28:46,822 --> 01:28:50,058
[Natalia] I believe that everyone
has their own Pacific to cross.

1237
01:28:51,626 --> 01:28:53,028
♪ Huh ♪

1238
01:29:09,344 --> 01:29:13,915
♪ I confess that I'm afraid ♪

1239
01:29:13,982 --> 01:29:18,887
♪ Through the thick of the darkness
I hear the waves ♪

1240
01:29:18,954 --> 01:29:24,392
♪ And I fight back the fear
Knowing victory is near ♪

1241
01:29:24,459 --> 01:29:29,564
♪ We're too close to the finish
To give it up here ♪

1242
01:29:30,131 --> 01:29:34,936
♪ So, on we will go ♪

1243
01:29:36,004 --> 01:29:40,709
♪ Rowing through dangerous shores ♪

1244
01:29:41,142 --> 01:29:44,846
♪ We don't got a care in sight ♪

1245
01:29:46,548 --> 01:29:52,721
♪ Something tells me I'm doing it right ♪

1246
01:29:57,425 --> 01:30:02,130
♪ Lord knows it hasn't been easy ♪

1247
01:30:02,397 --> 01:30:06,801
♪ To fight against the grain
While they slander your name ♪

1248
01:30:06,868 --> 01:30:12,107
♪ But I shut down the noise
And I hear my own voice ♪

1249
01:30:12,173 --> 01:30:17,612
♪ Trusting all of the roads
Were to lead me to here ♪

1250
01:30:18,480 --> 01:30:23,451
♪ So, on we will go ♪

1251
01:30:24,185 --> 01:30:28,456
♪ Rowing through dangerous shores ♪

1252
01:30:29,157 --> 01:30:33,962
♪ We don't got a care in sight ♪

1253
01:30:34,729 --> 01:30:41,036
♪ Something tells me I'm doing it right ♪

1254
01:30:55,784 --> 01:30:58,586
♪ Some don't want to try ♪

1255
01:30:58,653 --> 01:31:01,222
♪ Some don't want to try ♪

1256
01:31:01,489 --> 01:31:03,925
♪ Too afraid to fight ♪

1257
01:31:03,992 --> 01:31:06,494
♪ Too afraid to fight ♪

1258
01:31:06,561 --> 01:31:09,664
♪ But you can't get where you're going ♪

1259
01:31:09,731 --> 01:31:12,033
♪ You can't get where you're going ♪

1260
01:31:12,100 --> 01:31:16,204
♪ Unless you follow that flame inside ♪

1261
01:31:17,038 --> 01:31:22,043
♪ So, on we will go ♪

1262
01:31:22,677 --> 01:31:27,048
♪ Rowing through dangerous shores ♪

1263
01:31:27,882 --> 01:31:33,054
♪ We don't got a care in sight ♪

1264
01:31:33,121 --> 01:31:40,128
♪ Something tells me I'm doing it right ♪