After battling the Atlantic alone for seven weeks in a record-breaking feat of ocean rowing, Irish adventurer Gavan Hennigan had a simple request when he finally landed on terra-firma in the West Indies.

Gavan Hennigan (35) is an extreme environment athlete from Knocknacarra, Galway who is about to row, solo, across the Atlantic. This year he has already finished second in the 500km Yukon Arctic Ultra running race and also completed, in 17 days, a 700km trek across a frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia.