A rower from Poole and another man have become the first modern day, independent oarsmen to go non-stop from Morrocco to Barbados.

David Whiddon, and Lloyd Figgins, have completed the treacherous thirty-three hundred mile route in sixty days to raise money for the RNLI.

They say they faced storms, sharks and near misses with tankers ... but were also surround by a hundred and fifty dolphins and rowed through the phenonomenon of phospherescence, where the sea literally glows.