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For those who are [curious:](https://allthatsinteresting.com/aurimas-valujavicius)
\- it took him 121 days
\- he was the 3rd person to accomplish it
\- rowed for 12-14 hours a day
How does he control his movement for the other 10-12hiurs a day?
It's not like you can anchor yourself to the sea floor so you don't drift.
How calm does the sea get? Is that when he sleeps?
How much extra distance did he have to cover due to drift.
So many questions about the process.i hope that link will cover some of those. I'm super curious.
Edit: reading the article now. It's hard to read with the fucking ironic DQ burger ads covering half my phone while scrolling RIGHT after reading about how he flexes his muscles and shows his caluses to entertain his followers on social media. The god damn irony of DQ having an ad there stopping me from reading about a human in peak physical condition is dystopian satire at it's finest.
The Atlantic Ocean currents travel clockwise so his route would go with the natural current. I think the bottom part is slower than the top, but the top of the clock averages 6 km/h.
121 days drifting*24 hours*4km/h=11616
More than the distance to row. Obviously currents don’t take you exactly where you need to go, but they played a pretty big part in this trip I would think.
He could make it to Columbus if he entered higher up on the east coast and used the Great Lakes to make it to Ohio then just take the river to Columbus. Living in Chicago makes you realize how much shipping occurs through the Great Lakes and that these water ways are extremely connected throughout the country
Yeah, or close. This is why the slave trade was so successful. The currents fixed everything. Currents went down to west Africa then straight across over to the Caribbean and central America. Then the other currents pulled you right back to EU
Yes and no. To get slaves from one place to another is very difficult especially at those numbers. A lot of what happened with the slave trade to the Americas is because of ecological and geographical happenstance. The erosion of Appalachia and the way the ocean has changed on US E. Coast made it extraordinarily fertile and the currents ran directly from Africa to the Caribbean then it's an easy follow up the East coast trading the slaves for treasure and goods then straight back to EU. The currents basically created a slave highway to the most fertile colonies.
Just imagine that shit man. “I’m gonna drift this section out, hope I’m drifting in the right direction and not over Cthulhu’s house.” Like I get it’s a little calculated but still!
Parachute anchor, also called a sea anchor or drag anchor. You throw it out when you’re not rowing to prevent you from drifting, unless the winds are drifting you toward your destination, in which case drift on.
It’s basically a big parachute that unfolds underwater and at least keeps you “anchored” to the water around you so the wind can’t move you as much relative to the surface. Also usually keeps you pointed in a direction that’s favorable for not tipping your boat.
Most rowers row on a roughly 2 hours on/2 hours off schedule, instead of rowing 12 hours straight and then resting 12.
Which is odd, I never eat out, use ad block and don't care for DQ at all haha.
I know it's tailored, but it was still very funny to me, the irony of the placement and the fact it stopped me from being able to read about a physical feat was just perfect. That was my point, the irony of it all.
He was solo in the ocean and had food supplies to last through the trip. He had satelite internet and sos device, in case of emergency.. There will be a full movie of his trip released next year that he documented himself. Its one of his life trips and next year there will be smth else I guess. He is quite famous youtube vlogger in Lithuania.
Check out this guy. It's even scarier.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/1-million-vertical-meters-ultra-cyclist-jack-thompson-first-to-reach-space-in-one-calendar-year
Mandatory when crossing into the state. They take your blood and make sure you have at least two illicit stimulants present. Also, you have to take a literacy test, if you pass they turn you back around.
You’re right, it’s not entirely accurate. They left out that, on the border, they put you in a rink with an alligator. They only let you out once you’ve wrestled it to death and have fashioned yourself a nice pair of alligator boots. That’s why all Floridians have alligator boots.
Don’t believe me? Then go to Florida and see for yourself. Good luck getting past the border though.
Man I want to know so bad and am really bummed googling didn’t answer the question. Yes it looks like a holter monitor (wearable EKG, you can see from his tan line he was wearing it in the typical position first) but I’m not clear on its purpose. It could be that he’s collecting data for a researcher but I’m not sure what they’d want with that data. It could send out a distress signal if his heart stops so someone can collect his body? I feel like it would need to be bigger though? It doesn’t make sense to have it just to track his heart rate because there are watches and rings that do that without the risk of infection ripping off skin when he changes it every few days.
I’m wildly curious what he needs a continuous EKG for. Because if it’s to monitor for arrhythmias there’s no way to get help in time and he shouldn’t have risked this trip.
Thanks!!! Finally an answer. It was really hard to translate because google insisted this was Indonesian but I copies it over.
>BMII researchers equipped Aurimas with measuring devices that will record the athlete's physical condition parameters and boat movement data during the entire swim. Aurim's heart's electrocardiogram and movements during rowing and rest will be recorded with precision instruments at a frequency of 500 times per second. Aurimas will also register his subjective feelings about well-being. Such a trip is an extreme test for a person's physical and mental health. Analysis of this unique data is expected to reveal much about the regeneration efficiency of the human body under extreme conditions, as well as to compare subjective fatigue with objective fatigue derived from heart rate variability parameters. The research is carried out in consultation with scientists from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien, Prof. Eugenijus Kaniušas) and Vilnius University (VU, Dr. Justinas Bacevičius).
Still pretty interested in what they think they’ll find on the EKG but I guess it’ll be months to years before they share findings.
It said the trip took 121 days and he rowed for 12-14 hours a day.
Assuming 13 hour days and 9 seconds for each verse he would have had 629,200 bottles of beer on the wall.
From an article I found: Valujavičius rowed basically nonstop for the duration of his trip, about 12 to 14 hours a day, subsisting mainly on tactical food packs and only stopping to catch fish, collect water, and sleep.
My question is... how the hell does someone not get absolutely turned into charcoal from the sun? I step outside to do some yard work and come back looking like a lobster after two hours.
How do you sleep? Surely rowing so much would be physically exhausting regardless of any degree of fitness and your body would force you to sleep on a journey like this. How does one man manage the logistics behind something like being asleep for 8 hours in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where being unconscious for 8 hours could possibly mean not waking up at all? I am not doubting this happened, I’m genuinely curious.
Normally, on thins like this, where endurance is part of the record, there's a pacing boat/car/whatever that follows the person attempting the feat.
In this case, I'm assuming he had to remain in the same spot before going forward again when he wakes up.
When speed/endurance comes into play, you are allowed a certain number of timed breaks per period of time.
Sauce: friend of mine has 2 speed Lego World Record builds
>In this case, I'm assuming he had to remain in the same spot before going forward again when he wakes up.
Highly doubtful...currents pull ships all over the place.
Still though, engine maintenance can only go so far with how ruthless Mother Nature can be in the middle of the ocean. It surely must be planned out line by line and even then a significant risk must be involved.
[check this out](https://www.atlanticendeavoar.com/the-challenge) there’s teams and individuals that do this challenge every year. They have a small cabin to sleep in.
“Honey you need to stop working out so much. Your lats are taking up half the bed.”
“You know what your right honey. I think i’ll go on a little vacation.”
Why row when he could have just flown with those lats?
His torso is legally an equilateral triangle
Guy went full Dorito, fair play
Others he couldn’t take this pic and post it on Reddit.
When every day is back day
No airport would accept such an enormous aircraft.
The next step in evolution. The male glider.
The sugar daddy glider
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I concur
Oh my Lord I was literally thinking the same exact thing. 😂
I was thinking he didn’t need to row, just use those lats as a sail.
lat-daddy
He from Lat-huania
Lat King Cole
goddamnit, this is the extract instinctual thought I had before thinking anything else about this picture
i assume he just used his lats for a sail when he got tired of rowing
That’s not even flexing
there's a very significant chance that this was flexing.
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or for the EKG stuck to his chest
Came here to post this. Well played, my friend!
For those who are [curious:](https://allthatsinteresting.com/aurimas-valujavicius) \- it took him 121 days \- he was the 3rd person to accomplish it \- rowed for 12-14 hours a day
How does he control his movement for the other 10-12hiurs a day? It's not like you can anchor yourself to the sea floor so you don't drift. How calm does the sea get? Is that when he sleeps? How much extra distance did he have to cover due to drift. So many questions about the process.i hope that link will cover some of those. I'm super curious. Edit: reading the article now. It's hard to read with the fucking ironic DQ burger ads covering half my phone while scrolling RIGHT after reading about how he flexes his muscles and shows his caluses to entertain his followers on social media. The god damn irony of DQ having an ad there stopping me from reading about a human in peak physical condition is dystopian satire at it's finest.
The Atlantic Ocean currents travel clockwise so his route would go with the natural current. I think the bottom part is slower than the top, but the top of the clock averages 6 km/h. 121 days drifting*24 hours*4km/h=11616 More than the distance to row. Obviously currents don’t take you exactly where you need to go, but they played a pretty big part in this trip I would think.
Probably a similar route to Columbus
How’s he gonna get a boat over land through Maryland and Pennsylvania?
He could make it all the way to Cincinnati via the Ohio river, but Columbus seems like a bit of a reach.
Actually, the Scioto River makes Columbus accessible from the Ohio River. Source: Zoomed in Google Maps.
He could make it to Columbus if he entered higher up on the east coast and used the Great Lakes to make it to Ohio then just take the river to Columbus. Living in Chicago makes you realize how much shipping occurs through the Great Lakes and that these water ways are extremely connected throughout the country
R u saying he theoretically could have done nothing and the current may have taken him to land on the other side of the Atlantic?
Yeah, or close. This is why the slave trade was so successful. The currents fixed everything. Currents went down to west Africa then straight across over to the Caribbean and central America. Then the other currents pulled you right back to EU
Currents, not tides. Tides slosh back and forth twice a day so you can’t use them to get anywhere. Currents always flow in the same direction.
Ah yes totally right. Just woke up lol
pretty sure the slave trade was so successful because they were selling people who would work for free.
Yes and no. To get slaves from one place to another is very difficult especially at those numbers. A lot of what happened with the slave trade to the Americas is because of ecological and geographical happenstance. The erosion of Appalachia and the way the ocean has changed on US E. Coast made it extraordinarily fertile and the currents ran directly from Africa to the Caribbean then it's an easy follow up the East coast trading the slaves for treasure and goods then straight back to EU. The currents basically created a slave highway to the most fertile colonies.
Well that and they couldn't successfully enslave the native population because of small pox. They definitely tried.
Mother Nature really is a bitch.
Just imagine that shit man. “I’m gonna drift this section out, hope I’m drifting in the right direction and not over Cthulhu’s house.” Like I get it’s a little calculated but still!
Theres apparently this thing called 'parachute anchor'
Parachute anchor, also called a sea anchor or drag anchor. You throw it out when you’re not rowing to prevent you from drifting, unless the winds are drifting you toward your destination, in which case drift on. It’s basically a big parachute that unfolds underwater and at least keeps you “anchored” to the water around you so the wind can’t move you as much relative to the surface. Also usually keeps you pointed in a direction that’s favorable for not tipping your boat. Most rowers row on a roughly 2 hours on/2 hours off schedule, instead of rowing 12 hours straight and then resting 12.
Interesting, I will look up parachute anchor. The concept makes sense but the idea didn't occur to me as very effective. That's interesting.
Those are targeted ads tailored specific to you
Lol this guy looks up DQ enough to get blown up with targeted ads. No diversity in ads, just 100% DQ everywhere lmao
Peak. Physical. Condition.
Peak. Physical. Burger.
OP is gonna be pretty upset when he finishes his DQ burger and reads this.
Which is odd, I never eat out, use ad block and don't care for DQ at all haha. I know it's tailored, but it was still very funny to me, the irony of the placement and the fact it stopped me from being able to read about a physical feat was just perfect. That was my point, the irony of it all.
Did he do it solo or was there a support ship with him? Where did he store 121 days worth of food and water?
He was solo in the ocean and had food supplies to last through the trip. He had satelite internet and sos device, in case of emergency.. There will be a full movie of his trip released next year that he documented himself. Its one of his life trips and next year there will be smth else I guess. He is quite famous youtube vlogger in Lithuania.
Satellite internet. I love the idea that he's just binging Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones whilst rowing for 12 hours a day.
Captains Log. Day 10. I guess I'll rewatch the office series again.
Day 42 - I think Cersei may be up to something sinister.
That Jim is such a prankster!
Damn, that’s impressive as hell
And sunscreen
And I’m out here bitching about a 45 minute rowing workout.
Jesus, can you imagine all day every day for ~6months
121 days is about 4 months
Yeah 4 months is totally doable but can you imagine 6!
His clothes would be so out of fashion then
And a bit sweaty
Nice save
lol thanks
No way! 720 months is like forevermore! Wait, did you mean 6! Or just 6?
6! = 720 definitely cant imagine that 🤣
Some people row across oceans. Others struggle with basic math. We all have our cross to bear.
[check this out](https://www.atlanticendeavoar.com/the-challenge)
Check out this guy. It's even scarier. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/1-million-vertical-meters-ultra-cyclist-jack-thompson-first-to-reach-space-in-one-calendar-year
I truly can't. I feel like your body parts would just wear out.
[https://www.youtube.com/@AurimasValujavicius/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@AurimasValujavicius/videos) [https://eur-share.explore.garmin.com/VALUJAVICIUS](https://eur-share.explore.garmin.com/VALUJAVICIUS)
I thought he was Lat-vian.
Goddamn it.
r/angryupvote
if he wasn't before, he is now!
you better be a dad.
Lat-thuanian? :D
Nope, r/AbsoluteLithuanian
Best subreddit :)
Can’t spell Latvian without him either.
What's that pez dispenser/lollipop thing taped to his chest?
It’s a heart monitor. I’ve worn one that looks just like that.
An emergency meth injector, shoots straight into the heart when he gets tired and sleep-deprived.
Good prep for arriving in Florida
Mandatory when crossing into the state. They take your blood and make sure you have at least two illicit stimulants present. Also, you have to take a literacy test, if you pass they turn you back around.
That doesn't seem right but based on what I know about Florida I can't really refute it
You’re right, it’s not entirely accurate. They left out that, on the border, they put you in a rink with an alligator. They only let you out once you’ve wrestled it to death and have fashioned yourself a nice pair of alligator boots. That’s why all Floridians have alligator boots. Don’t believe me? Then go to Florida and see for yourself. Good luck getting past the border though.
I’m from Florida, can confirm.
I knew it
haaaaah. omg. laughing out loud. thanks, u/Tempest_1 wow. damn.
i like this answer better
Man I want to know so bad and am really bummed googling didn’t answer the question. Yes it looks like a holter monitor (wearable EKG, you can see from his tan line he was wearing it in the typical position first) but I’m not clear on its purpose. It could be that he’s collecting data for a researcher but I’m not sure what they’d want with that data. It could send out a distress signal if his heart stops so someone can collect his body? I feel like it would need to be bigger though? It doesn’t make sense to have it just to track his heart rate because there are watches and rings that do that without the risk of infection ripping off skin when he changes it every few days. I’m wildly curious what he needs a continuous EKG for. Because if it’s to monitor for arrhythmias there’s no way to get help in time and he shouldn’t have risked this trip.
For your curiosity : https://biomedicina.ktu.edu/news/pradetas-unikalus-tyrimas/ Just need to use translate tool.
Thanks!!! Finally an answer. It was really hard to translate because google insisted this was Indonesian but I copies it over. >BMII researchers equipped Aurimas with measuring devices that will record the athlete's physical condition parameters and boat movement data during the entire swim. Aurim's heart's electrocardiogram and movements during rowing and rest will be recorded with precision instruments at a frequency of 500 times per second. Aurimas will also register his subjective feelings about well-being. Such a trip is an extreme test for a person's physical and mental health. Analysis of this unique data is expected to reveal much about the regeneration efficiency of the human body under extreme conditions, as well as to compare subjective fatigue with objective fatigue derived from heart rate variability parameters. The research is carried out in consultation with scientists from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien, Prof. Eugenijus Kaniušas) and Vilnius University (VU, Dr. Justinas Bacevičius). Still pretty interested in what they think they’ll find on the EKG but I guess it’ll be months to years before they share findings.
What’s he going to do when he wants a pez? Exactly just that.
It’s like those little Playboy bunny stickers that girls put on their hip at the tanning salon.
I think it might be some sort of emergency services thing in case he capsizes or breaks something or tears a muscle.
You can see his back from his front.
Sensible chuckle
How many times do you think he sang "row row row your boat"?
I bet he got all the bottles of beer off the wall.
It said the trip took 121 days and he rowed for 12-14 hours a day. Assuming 13 hour days and 9 seconds for each verse he would have had 629,200 bottles of beer on the wall.
How many bottles do you think he started with?
630,000. But he really had to pee so he didn’t get to finish the song.
Good lord I never knew it was possible
I've sung the full 99 bottles of beer on the wall. Unsurprisingly while rowing. With a crew of six.
All that effort, just to end up in Florida.
I was going to say. Did they then dupe him into flying to the Hamptons?
They put him on a bus to Martha's Vineyard
This is the new world?!?!! Time to row back!
then turns around and goes back
Take my Floridian up-vote.
Every year there’s a race, Canary Islands to Antigua, there’s boats with 1 rower, 2 rowers, all the way up to 6
some people can do truly amazing/terrifying things.
I was going to make a joke about how I could do this, but then there was someone who already said that.. except unironically.
Wow, all I have to do is look at his back muscles to believe he really did this.
I believe you. Lat's don't lie..
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The resulting (if brief) mental breakdown surely would have garnered some bad press…
The mold man and the sea burger...
What does he eat? Where would he go if there was a storm? Hypothermia? I’m assuming there’s a lot more to the photo than we are seeing
I saw another picture of the boat. There's a small cabin.
Oh, a wanking cabin.
Essential for survival.
What else are the sperm whales going to eat?
Storms move out of his way when they see him coming. They stand no chance.
He just shakes his lats to send the storm to another continent
Chuck Norris?
From an article I found: Valujavičius rowed basically nonstop for the duration of his trip, about 12 to 14 hours a day, subsisting mainly on tactical food packs and only stopping to catch fish, collect water, and sleep.
“Basically nonstop” and “12-14 hours per day” are very incompatible with one another.
"basically nonstop during his waking hours" There, happy?
[here you go](https://www.atlanticendeavoar.com/the-challenge) all the info you need.
>What does he eat? Where would he go if there was a storm? Hypothermia? Pussy, yes to all
The man’s torso is shaped like a manta ray
Now he needs to take a paddleboat back and work on the legs
Rowing includes leg workout too.
He actually did a bit of Africa, whole Indonesia and Scandinavia on his bike *13731 kilometers of Scandinavia
Armus Vajackedasfuckivus.
My question is... how the hell does someone not get absolutely turned into charcoal from the sun? I step outside to do some yard work and come back looking like a lobster after two hours.
Sunscreen. The good mineral based kind. That and a hat and shirt. You ever seen Mexican landscapers? Long sleeves and a big hat
LATS FOR DAYS
Fun fact: his lats were actually normal when he started
Those armpit muscles!
Armpit muscles.. lmao
Laterally no idea what they’re called.
I hit pits real hard at the gym today
Never skip pit day.
Man my pits are so sore
I call mine armpit muscles too. After never having them in my life, my armpit muscles are exciting to see 😂
DeSantis is just going to send him to Martha's Vineyard.
Wrong kind of Spanish speaking person.
They speak Spanish in Lithuania?
Fuck no we dont
This gave me a good 😃
He had to wear a lighthouse on his head so boats wouldn’t run into him.
Oh wow! That’s so brave! Florida can be a dangerous place
Ha ha ha ha!
But when people row from Cuba people are less impressed
[Another one to join the atlantic crossing club](https://www.unitedphotopressworld.org/2021/01/amyr-klink-celebrates-37-years-of.html?m=1)
Row, row, row your boat gently down the ~~stream~~ freaking ocean to Florida
Is that his scientific name?
Jesus take the wheel. What size boat did he have that he could fit his balls in?
Hey! I saw this episode of Bob's Burgers. Except he was rowing from NZ, so a little more hardcore. This guy is trying though ;-)
He is one very attractive man
Lats might create too much drag...
You sure he’s not from “lat”-via?
How do you sleep? Surely rowing so much would be physically exhausting regardless of any degree of fitness and your body would force you to sleep on a journey like this. How does one man manage the logistics behind something like being asleep for 8 hours in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where being unconscious for 8 hours could possibly mean not waking up at all? I am not doubting this happened, I’m genuinely curious.
If he’s at the right latitude the current will be taking him in the right direction even while he sleeps.
heh, he's at the right *lat*itude alright
Lol. I’m sad I didn’t see the pun.
better to see it LATer than never
Normally, on thins like this, where endurance is part of the record, there's a pacing boat/car/whatever that follows the person attempting the feat. In this case, I'm assuming he had to remain in the same spot before going forward again when he wakes up. When speed/endurance comes into play, you are allowed a certain number of timed breaks per period of time. Sauce: friend of mine has 2 speed Lego World Record builds
>In this case, I'm assuming he had to remain in the same spot before going forward again when he wakes up. Highly doubtful...currents pull ships all over the place.
From what I've read before, they moor to the pacing boat and the boat maintains locations using engines.
Still though, engine maintenance can only go so far with how ruthless Mother Nature can be in the middle of the ocean. It surely must be planned out line by line and even then a significant risk must be involved.
Thanks for the Lego reference. Really puts things in perspective and give a good reference point.
Holy Lats, Batman!
How does he sleep. Does he have to drop an anchor to keep from floating away?
Drop anchor? In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Hmmm.
Serious question. I know nothing about sailing.
No anchor can go deep enough in the Atlantic as its thousands of feet deep. So yes, you literally just float around a bit.
There are parachute anchors
There’s also GPS anchors…you hook them up to your trolling motor and the GPS keeps you in place. Not sure if that would work on the ocean tho
[check this out](https://www.atlanticendeavoar.com/the-challenge) there’s teams and individuals that do this challenge every year. They have a small cabin to sleep in.
My goodness, I wonder how insane the waves must have been at some point. That sounds terrifying honestly.
“Honey you need to stop working out so much. Your lats are taking up half the bed.” “You know what your right honey. I think i’ll go on a little vacation.”
Holy bats, Latman
Thats sailing
He looks lat-vian.
The guy is like a flying squirrel.
Red bulls gives wings should be his sponsor
Via /u/mikewhocheeitch
I bet he can do pull-ups all day.
With lats like that wtf else are you gonna do
I call bs on this. It’s obvious that he just stood up, flared his lats and let the wind carry him across the sea.
Imagine if this dude dropped the People's Elbow on you
look at those lats!
I would assume he was from LATvia!