Atlantic rowers heading for home

TWO Irish rowers who cheated death after a wave reduced their boat to smithereens are due back in Ireland tomorrow.

Ciarán Lewis, 34, from Dublin and Gearóid Towey, 28, from Kilworth, Co Cork, have spent the week on board the giant gas tanker that plucked them from the water 2,253 kilometres south of Bermuda last Sunday night.

The Hispania Spirit, a 275-metre tanker, is to arrive at Cartagena in southern Spain late tonight but will not berth in the harbour until early tomorrow morning for safety reasons.