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Puget Sound Grads Row Across Atlantic Ocean and into History Books
August 21, 2006

A group of Puget Sound alumni rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and into the history books this week. The men, known as OAR Northwest, are the first Americans to ever win the Shepard's Ocean Fours race and to successfully row from mainland U.S. to mainland U.K. Here's a sampling of media outlets that have covered this adventure of a lifetime...

KING 5 video coverage: Seattle ocean rowers win trans-Atlantic race

710 KIRO Morning News

'The finish was magic'
Tacoma News Tribune

Seattle rowers triumph in race across Atlantic
Seattle PI

Land Ho!
Times-Standard

Locals rowing toward record
Seattle Times

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