* Mark Eichenberger; Adventurer Challenged the Sea
Mark Eichenberger, 38, a maritime adventurer who rowed a boat from South America to Antarctica in 1988. Eichenberger and three companions were the first to row from South America to Antarctica, traveling in an aluminum rowboat across the 600-mile Drake Passage, considered the roughest body of water in the world. Their boat, “Sea Tomato,” overturned several times before reaching King George Island off the Antarctic Peninsula. On Saturday off southern Chile after being thrown into stormy seas from the deck of a National Science Foundation ship carrying supplies, scientists and support personnel to and from Palmer Station in Antarctica.
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