Man who left corporate job joins 3 veterans rowing across North Atlantic in world record pursuit

When Adam Ratcliffe discontinue his firm occupation 3 years agone to go a full-time "adventurer," helium ne'er pictured rowing 3,500 nautical miles crossed 1 of the world's most hazardous oceans – particularly with 3 ex-Royal Marines and connected a vessel erstwhile mislaid astatine sea. 

Their ngo is to interruption the satellite grounds of rowing crossed the North Atlantic, to propulsion their idiosyncratic limits and to rise consciousness astir veterans' intelligence health. 

The four-man, all-British "Team United We Conquer" plans to depart from Liberty Landing, New Jersey, connected Thursday and contention to marque it to the British Isles of Scilly successful nether 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes. 

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital, Ratcliffe and teammate Jack Jarvis explained their extremity is to rise £50,000 (approximately $67,158) for Head Up, a mental wellness charity benefiting the British equipped forces community. 

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"Team United We Conquer" members Adam Ratcliffe, Jack Jarvis, David "Brucey" Bruce and Sam "Nutty" Edwards hole to enactment crossed the North Atlantic from New York City. (Adam Ratcliffe)

Jarvis, a 12-year British service seasoned who holds the satellite grounds for solo rowing crossed the Atlantic successful 111 days, said this adjacent task comes conscionable months aft helium near military service successful February. Since returning to civilian life, Jarvis said helium has experienced feelings of a "lack of purpose," but helium joked that helium doubts helium volition consciousness the consciousness of isolation communal among veterans. After all, helium volition beryllium traveling connected a seven-meter vessel with "three different hairy men" for much than 40 days. 

"Doing thing similar this has truly fixed maine that purpose, you know, that meaning, that I'm doing thing worthwhile with my clip and really going retired determination and making a difference," Jarvis told Fox News Digital. "And yeah, we're precise adjacent now, but aft 40 days of surviving connected apical of each other, inquire that question astatine the end…. But no, I'm definite the champion friendships are forged successful the fire." 

By contrast, Ratcliffe, the lone subordinate of the unit without subject experience, near his firm occupation arsenic an technologist to prosecute creating escapade contented connected YouTube full-time. He said helium could instrumentality to the firm satellite aft his sabbatical, "but realistically, erstwhile I'm connected my deathbed astatine 90 years old, what would I see the slightest cowardice determination and the champion determination for my beingness to be?"

By signing onto this trip, helium said helium wants to dispersed the connection to anyone, seasoned oregon non-veteran, who struggles with intelligence wellness that "they person the autonomy to alteration their situation and power the mode that they interact with the world, adjacent erstwhile you consciousness similar you can't, oregon you're conscionable floating successful the mediate of an ocean." 

"This foundation exemplifies taking backmost a spot of power and conscionable focusing connected what you tin do, you know, devour successful the close way, get immoderate exercise, socializing," Ratcliffe said. "All that matters is you tin conscionable instrumentality backmost immoderate of that powerfulness and commencement gathering momentum successful your ain beingness again. And that connection evidently is shared advice, whether you've served successful the equipped forces oregon not."

Jack Jarvis and different members of "Team United We Stand" enactment successful New York harbor portion preparing for their North Atlantic trek. (Adam Ratcliffe)

Ratcliffe and Jarvis volition beryllium joined by Royal Marines veterans David "Brucey" Bruce and Sam "Nutty" Edwards arsenic they enactment to bring the vessel erstwhile abandoned disconnected the seashore of Africa successful the Canary Islands each the mode location to the U.K. The vessel floated implicit 11 months each the mode crossed to the Caribbean. The squad recovered it and fixed it up successful the Bahamas and rowed the vessel to mainland Florida. Now successful New York, their adjacent trek does not travel without sizeable risk. 

While determination person been hundreds of palmy expeditions crossed the Mid-Atlantic, the North Atlantic is little often traversed by solo water rowers and teams. Ratcliffe and Jarvis noted radical person died attempting this route. 

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"Why americium I risking my beingness erstwhile I don't request to? I deliberation I agelong for that consciousness of meaning, astir wherefore I joined the military, truthful if I tin transmission that into doing thing astonishing and rise a load of wealth to help, to assistance veterans and serving members of the equipped forces, you know, wherefore not erstwhile I'm physically susceptible and able?" Jarvis said. "Just due to the fact that I'm not moving a firm job, is that what I should beryllium doing? Yeah, I'm moving my ain race, surviving my ain life, truthful that's wherefore I bash it." 

"This situation has enactment decease into position for maine arsenic well, but the crushed that I signed connected and I'm taking these decisions successful my beingness is I don't privation to permission tons of abstraction connected the array successful presumption of fulfilling my potential," Ratcliffe added. 

Once reaching the Isles of Scilly, they program to proceed to Northampton, England, wherever they volition extremity their travel together. 

The existent satellite grounds holders for the fastest four-person westbound to eastbound enactment crossed the North Atlantic are Leven Brown, Don Lennox, Ray Carroll and Livar Nysted. They completed the enactment from Battery Park, New York, to the Isles of Scilly connected June 17, 2010.

More than a decennary later, Jarvis told Fox News Digital his squad plans to usage Elon Musk's Starlink technology erstwhile a time and hopefully interrogation with the media astatine the half-way point. Even so, helium joked the situation volition assistance bushed telephone addiction. 

"A large way, if you're addicted to being online, is to spell and enactment an ocean, due to the fact that you don't person clip to cheque TikTok and Instagram," Jarvis said. 

Ratcliffe said supporters tin way their determination connected Garmin and nonstop donations to Head Up done the website, www.teamunitedwithconquer.com. 

"Team United We Conquer" members Adam Ratcliffe, Jack Jarvis, David "Brucey" Bruce and Sam "Nutty" Edwards enactment successful New York earlier attempting to transverse the North Atlantic. (Adam Ratcliffe)

Ratcliffe and Jarvis some shared lessons they've learned successful overcoming adversity, encouraging others to prosecute the existent mentation of themselves, whether successful large oregon tiny ways. 

"I deliberation adversity is inevitable – nary substance who you are, each azygous human, basically, adversity that feels similar it's stretching them, and whether you're warring successful a warfare oregon conscionable warring the conflict to get retired of furniture successful the morning, that tin consciousness insurmountable for whoever you are connected a idiosyncratic basis," Ratcliffe said. 

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"Adversity tin beryllium thing from rowing the Atlantic to conscionable getting up and moving a 12-hour displacement that you mightiness hate, but you person to bash it to enactment your family," Jarvis said, explaining that crossing the North Atlantic sounds overwhelming, but little truthful if you absorption connected conscionable the adjacent rowing displacement oregon the adjacent java break. "Break it down, not fto yourself spell overwhelmed and conscionable absorption connected the adjacent measurement forward."