{"id":122616,"date":"2021-05-15T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/surfer-becomes-first-to-cross-the-atlantic-on-a-paddleboard"},"modified":"2021-05-15T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:23:55","slug":"surfer-becomes-first-to-cross-the-atlantic-on-a-paddleboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/surfer-becomes-first-to-cross-the-atlantic-on-a-paddleboard","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Becomes First to Cross the Atlantic on a Paddleboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surfer-becomes-first-to-cross-the-atlantic-on-a-paddleboard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017 o,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ninety-three days, 4600 miles, and almost 2 million strokes. That\u2019s what it took Chris Bertish to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle (SUP) board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was pretty radical, pretty incredible, driven by a passion and a purpose greater than yourself\u2014and that powered me to get through everything, day in and day out,\u201d said Bertish in a Skype interview with National Geographic.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning off the coast of Morocco, he travelled for 93 days to reach English Harbour, Antigua, where he arrived haggard and grateful to still be standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 o,.o. Ninety-three days, 4600 miles, and almost 2 million strokes. That\u2019s what it took Chris Bertish to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle (SUP) board. \u201cIt was pretty radical, pretty incredible, driven by a passion and a purpose greater than yourself\u2014and that powered me to get through everything, day in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}