UK News 09-08-2004 Atlantic Rowers Rescued who: Atlantic rowing team leader Mark Stubbs what: Says boat was sliced in half by huge wave where: The Atlantic when: Yesterday snippet: "Four British rowers were rescued yesterday — after their boat was sliced in half by a 60-FOOT rogue wave," says The Sun. "Relieved team leader Mark Stubbs, 40, said the crew was rattled but safe after clinging to a tiny liferaft in the Atlantic for SIX HOURS." "The men, 39 days into an attempt on the century-old record for a crossing from Newfoundland, Canada, to Falmouth, Cornwall, were 300 miles from home when they were caught by the tail end of Hurricane Alex," says The Telegraph. "Falmouth Coastguard scrambled a Nimrod marine patrol aircraft to locate the rowers and alerted ships in the area," says The Times. At 8:20am , "the crew of the Pink Lady were eventually rescued by a Danish cargo ship off the Isles of Scilly yesterday morning." "It is a shame we didn`t make it, but at least we can assure ourselves it wasn`t anything we did wrong," says 48 year-old oarsman Jonathan Gornall, a journalist for The Times. "You take on nature and you take what she delivers and on this particular occasion she delivered a killer blow." In other dramatic weather-related news, The Telegraph reports on the rescue of five Britons who were part of a group of 12 scuba divers stranded for 11 hours in the "shark-infested waters" of the Red Sea; The Sun reports that a ten year-old boy was drowned while swimming with his brothers at St Bees in Cumbria; and The Guardian says we can expect "heavy rain and flash floods spreading eastwards across much of the country today". However, The Sun says we should be able to see a spectacular meteor shower over Britain this week - on Wednesday night, the falling remains of comet Swift-Tuttle could produce as many as 100 meteors an hour. [... more]

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