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Royal Marines Charity dinner

On route to London for the Royal Marines Charity dinner at the guildhall London.
Always look forward to an incredible evening in great company. Never more so than after the Covid gap. Here’s to cracking the Million Pound raised mark tonight and a great night with kev Browning MD of Global tunneling experts and long time supporter of all things Cockleshell Endeavour 🍾
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One Show

All things being equal, the ‘Cockleshell Atlantic Endeavour’ will be on The One Show this Friday evening (BBC 1; 19.00 26/3/21). Now safely back and recovered from their efforts rowing the Atlantic Ocean over Christmas and the New Year it will be the perfect end to a spectacularly successful project. Well earned recognition for a superb effort in an incredibly challenging year. Good effort gents!
The team are enormously grateful to the many people who’ve supported them in their efforts to raise money and awareness for the Royal Marines Charity and the invaluable work the charity does throughout this project. Thank you!
If you’re able and you wish to donate to their fund you can still do so via the link below:
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Chris Martin

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS – Chris Martin

Best Christmas present possible. God knows how but Chris Martin has managed to change Guinness records mind and at last they’ve rightly acknowledged Stephen Charles Sparkes as the first blind person to row the Pacific Ocean 🎊🎉🍸🍾
Now I’ve got to break the news to him that this doesn’t come with any Guinness 😳😳😄 Congratulations mate

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119 days on his own at sea

Former Marine completes unsupported row across Atlantic, spending 119 days on his own at sea

A former marine has successfully rowed across the Atlantic Ocean alone and unsupported, in what is believed to be one of the first such journeys.

Dave “Dinger” Bell spent 119 days travelling from New York to the UK, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. He reached Newlyn, Cornwall, on Sunday afternoon.

Photos shared on Twitter showed Mr Bell’s family and friends welcoming him home at Newlyn Harbour with fanfare.

The journey was marked by several struggles, including a huge storm, jellyfish stings and Mr Bell’s fear of open water. His team kept his followers informed with regular updates on social media.

His last hurdle, however, was to face heavy winds that made him change his destination from Falmouth to Newlyn.

“I didn’t want to finish in the Scillies — I wanted to make the mainland,” Mr Bell told BBC. “It was a race against time,” he said, describing his non-stop rowing for 40 hours in harsh weather off the Isles of Scilly.

For the last three miles, a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat was sent to guide him. “Dinger has gone from seeing nobody to starting to see people and having real conversations with people, albeit it shouting!” an update on Twitter read. “Incredibly, Dinger has not slept in 40 hours!”

“I’m never doing anything dangerous ever again,” Mr Bell told the BBC upon arrival.

Organisers said it had “been a nail-biting couple of days waiting for him to arrive”.

Mr Bell said his endeavours are to raise funds for two charities — the Special Boat Service Association and Rock 2 Recovery, UK.