Mission Accomplished: Katie Spotz is Youngest Woman Ever to Row Solo across the Atlantic Ocean

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Mission Accomplished: Katie Spotz is Youngest Woman Ever to Row Solo across the Atlantic Ocean

by Zachary Shahan in Activism/Events, Drinking Water

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In an effort, initally, to raise $30,000 for Blue Planet Run, a charity dedicated to providing clean water to those without it, 22 year old Katie Spotz just rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean. It took her 70 days, 5 hours and 22 minutes.

Katie is no stranger to endurance challenges like this. She was the first to swim the entire length of the Allegheny River, has run through the Mojave Desert, and has cycled across the United States, but she says this was definitely her biggest challenge to date.

Katie spent 70 days rowing across the Atlantic

Katie landed in South America in the middle of March, after a two week detour due to bad landing conditions at her original destination (Cayenne, French Guyana), and she has now raised approximately $75,000 for Blue Planet Run. Her revised fundraising goal, though, is $84,510, “$30 (i.e. clean drinking water for life for one person) for every one of the 2,817 miles from Dakar, Senegal to Georgetown, Guyana, the route that Katie has just rowed.”

Image Credit: Row for Water

Katie Spotz' route from Senegal, Africa to Guyana, South America

To help her reach that final goal and for numerous wonderful photos, stories, interviews, and so on, visit Katie’s Row for Water website.

Katie just spent over two months of her life rowing in order to help provide clean drinking water to others. Throw in your $30 to provide one person with drinking water for the rest of their life.

Posted on Apr 07, 2010

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Activism, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, blue planet run, clean drinking water, Drinking Water, katie spotz, row, row for water, rowing, spotz

About the Author

Zachary Shahan

Zach has in-depth experience in a range of fields connected with the environment and society. He has a B.A. in environmental studies and sociology (from New College of Florida, the Honors College of Florida) and a Master’s in city and regional planning (from UNC-Chapel Hill). Zachary has worked in natural foods stores (ranging from small co-op markets to corporate giant Whole Foods Market), in government positions (in city planning and environmental education), as an urban research consultant, as the Executive Director of a non-profit organization promoting sustainable development and clean transportation, and, for the past couple of years, as both a professional blogger and an English teacher in Poland. He currently lives in Wroclaw (Poland), but has also lived in Groningen (the Netherlands), Sarasota & Bradenton (Florida), Chapel Hill & Carrboro (North Carolina), Sunnyvale (California), Ithaca (New York), and Charlottesville (Virginia). He is the editor of Planetsave, and you can also find his written work on Cleantechnica, sustainablog, Eat.Drink.Better., Green Living Ideas, Blue Living Ideas, Earth & Industry, ecopolitology, lightngreen, or ZacharyShahan.com.