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Published 23:06 15 Feb 2018 GMT
Updated 23:07 15 Feb 2018 GMT
He knew what he was letting himself in for.
A description of the event on his website prior to his departure stated that 'more people have reached the summit of Mount Everest and have travelled into space than those that have successfully rowed across the Atlantic ocean'.
And he had no real experience of rowing.
"I have no maritime experience. In my training I have been in some decent conditions on the west coast of Ireland but I think with what we're faced with tomorrow, and over the first seven days, will be another four or five steps above that," he told us before his journey," he told us before setting off.It would take much more than uncertainty to stop this man. Here he was making it back to dry land.

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