Timur Ibatullin, the chief of the expedition headquarters, reports that the twins Sergey and Alexander embarked on the rowing boat Rus to brave this most resistant ocean on April 22
and set out from the Australian port of Carnarvon towards Africa's Eastern coast-toward Tanzania. They have so far overcome 15 days of this very painstaking marathon.
The headquarters have learnt from the twins that the ocean has surpassed all their expectations.
"The weather forecast did not promise the waves and wind of such intensity. The cyclone which swept through the ocean on the fifth day only slightly brushed against the boat but that meant seven-meter high steep waves which crashed on the boat and made us reduce the speed. Thus, we covered 44 kilometers in two days instead of 60, given the average index," said the brothers.
On the sixth of May, the crew steadied the course and headed for north-east, having left behind the tropic of Capricorn, the South tropic of the earth and managed to avoid the collision with a foreign company's oncoming freighter-only 200 meters separated the boat from "the giant counterpart".
The brothers' route lies from Western Australia across the ocean to the African Eastern coast-in all, over 5,000 miles, that is 8,500 kilometers or four months without calling at ports.
