I have been following Roz Savage on her current ocean rowing voyage. She is on the second leg of her Pacific crossing. Earlier this week Roz crossed the International Date Line. As she noted on her blog she was so far west, she is now east.
This morning, east coast time around 12:42 she crossed the equator! From her blog Roz marked crossing the Equator at 18:42:02 Hawaii Time, at longitude 179 12.359E. Roz marks her voyage time by Hawaiian time. A big milestone on this leg of the voyage. Roz is heading to Tuavlu the final point on this leg. Tuavlu is 500 miles south and east of where she crossed the equator.
In 2005 Roz was the first woman to complete a solo rowing across the Atlantic. In the summer of 2008 she rowed from California to Hawaii. On May 24, 2009 she left Hawaii headed to Tuvalu as the second stage of her three part row across the Pacific.
Roz is well connected as she row and has a great land based support crew. They have created the ROZ TRACKER, I have included a link to the tracker on the right side of the page. It shows her GPS location, her path through the ocean, as well as her Twitter feeds, Blogger post and when she has time You Tube post. Roz is also doing a weekly NetCast Roz rows the Pacific with Leo that is available from Leo's site or Itunes. This is an amazing amount of tech she has taken with her. It is all portable, it is all solar recharged, very cool stuff.
Roz has a platform for each segment she rows. She runs the whole adventure on donations. She is bringing awareness to global warming, pollution in the Pacific