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Please join us to celebrate Team Ithaca’s world record-breaking row around Great Britain! Date: Saturday 11 November, 2023Time: 7:30pmLocation: Tudor Rowing Club, Eastern Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5LYParking: There is free parking at the club, but if it’s full there is plenty of additional parking at the Andrew Simpson Watersports Centre next door The presentation evening […]

GB Row Challenge’s lead science partner, the University of Portsmouth, has been recognised for the crucial role it is taking in the global battle against plastic pollution.  The University’s Revolution Plastics initiative, which is a collaboration of leading researchers, academics and scientists at the University of Portsmouth, has been shortlisted for a significant new award […]

A team of six ocean rowers has set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest female team to complete the GB Row Challenge. They’ve battled torrential rain, strong winds, lightning and thunder, while rowing two hours on and two hours off for the last 44 days.  Departing from Tower Bridge in London on 4 […]

Pupils from Horndean Junior School in Hampshire spent yesterday afternoon learning about how the rowers taking part in GB Row Challenge are collecting vital scientific data. Scientist Dr Fay Couceiro from the University of Portsmouth talked to pupils about the GB Row Challenge, a 2,000 mile journey around Great Britain, which aims to shed light […]

A team of six women – who are rowing 2,000 miles around Great Britain – have successfully navigated a dangerous stretch of water between Orkney and the Scottish mainland, and are now heading south. The Pentland Firth is widely known as one of the world’s most treacherous channels because of its powerful tidal streams. The […]

The all-female crew rowing around Great Britain is over halfway around. Despite rough conditions in recent days, they rowed under the Skye Bridge this afternoon and have less than 1,000 miles to go.  ‘Team Ithaca’ includes six extraordinary women taking part in the GB Row Challenge, a 2,000 mile row around Britain’s coastline. They’ve been […]

A team of female ocean rowers will set off on a 2,000 mile rowing challenge around the entire coast of Great Britain on Sunday 4 June, and they’re aiming for a world record.  The crew of six includes a cyber security expert, an Army nurse, a mountaineer, a former international rugby player, a fitness instructor […]

A student with a passion for scuba diving and science has just started her dream PhD at the University of Portsmouth.  Laura Fantuzzi will spend the next three years analysing ocean pollution data collected by rowers during the GB Row Challenge, a 2,000-mile event that circumnavigates Great Britain’s coastline.  She said: “I’m excited to be […]

A female ocean rower with an appetite for extreme adventure who has twice faced dramatic rescues on the high seas is hoping it’ll be third time lucky on her next challenge. Emma Wolstenholme, 40, is picking up her oars to race around Great Britain’s coastline in June. If her team succeeds, they’ll be the first […]

The data collected last summer by teams competing in the GB Row Challenge has found microplastics pollution around Great Britain’s coastline up to 100 times worse than previously recorded. The significantly higher concentrations of microplastics than recorded on a national survey six years ago have been reported by scientists at the University of Portsmouth. Research […]