Two University of Puget Sound graduates are part of a four-man crew that shoved off from the Republic of Senegal at about 2:30 this morning with plans to row to Miami.

Former UPS rowers Jordan Hanssen and Pat Fleming departed the African country and plan to row unassisted 3,569 miles across the Atlantic. Also on the crew are Canadians Adam Kreek, a 2008 Olympic rowing gold medalist, and Markus Pukonen.

Hanssen was part of an all-UPS crew that rowed across the North Atlantic in 2006.

This expedition, sponsored by the Canadian Wildlife Federation, was originally scheduled to start last …

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OAR Northwest is returning to its roots to complete its crew for a transatlantic row later this year.

Captain Jordan Hanssen said the team added former University of Puget Sound rower Pat Fleming for the Canadian Wildlife Federation Africa to the Americas expedition.

Hanssen is a former UPS graduate who formed OAR Northwest with three college friends to row in a race from New York to the United Kingdom in 2006. The 2006 team won the race and earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Hanssen’s book on the expedition, “Rowing into the Son” (The …

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