Posted on 06/27/2020 8:41:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Madsen, 60, was declared dead at 11 p.m. PST on Monday, June 22, when the US Coast Guard discovered her body several hours after she last made contact with anybody, according to a letter posted to RowOfLife.org, a website set up to document the journey, and signed by Madsens wife, Debra Madsen, and filmmaker Soraya Simi.
A paraplegic, Angela Madsen was a six-time Guinness World Record holder who was in the midst of attempting her next feat: to become the first paraplegic and oldest woman to row from California to Hawaii alone. Madsen carried all of her own food and used a desalinator to make fresh water. She set a goal of rowing 12 out of every 24 hours for three-four months to complete her journey, the filmmakers wrote on the films website.
She departed from Los Angeles and rowed approximately 1,114 nautical miles, which was 1,275 nautical miles from her destination in Honolulu. Madsen had been alone at sea for 60 days.
On Sunday, June 21, Madsen checked in via satellite and said that she was going into the water to fix her bow anchor. After not hearing from Madsen for several hours, a search and rescue operation was initiated. An aircraft was dispatched and a cargo vessel was re-routed to find her. The Coast Guard discovered her body, the letter said.
Madsen was an LGBTQ activist, having served as the grand marshal of the Long Beach Pride Parade in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
"The US military refused to pay for Madsen's medical bills following the accident, and, in the dispute that followed, Madsen lost her home and her marriage fell apart. She fell into depression and became homeless, living out of a storage locker in Disneyland."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Madsen#Spinal_injury_and_surgery
That is an absolutely tragic story. RIP.
How does one live out of a storage locker IN Disneyland?!
What a life story. And she made it almost half way to Hawaii. RIP
Sad. Wonder if she got hung up on something during the bow anchor repair and drowned? I imagine she was tethered to the craft.
so, didn’t Brewer & Shipley write a song about this called “One Row Over The Line, Sweet Jesus?”
Kind of like the saying of living out of your suitcase. Same concept.
Wow, that is a sad story.
I do not understand how our military cannot pay for insurance that would have covered the hospital bills for an accident.
Too bad she got taken in.
Okay. I’ll have a beer for the occasion, because beer seems to be an effective diuretic.
Okay. I’ll have a beer for the occasion, because beer seems to be an effective diuretic.
Brought tears to my eyes. She definitely was a warrior.
I do know that whatever my purpose is in this life, my differently-abled, physically-challenged, broken-down, beaten-up body seems to be the vehicle required for me to achieve it. I am purpose driven; I may suffer pain and not walk upright in this life, but when I go home, I will not suffer the walk through the gate. I can live with that. If I could go back and change things, I would not. It would be nice not to have to suffer so much pain but, hey, thats just the way it is. In the beginning, I was angry. But now, I completely understand, Madsen wrote in her memoir Rowing Against the Wind.
Every so often someone comes along and takes upon himself/herself an unbelievable, grueling challenge (e.g., scaling some mountain, walking/rowing/swimming some great distance, etc) and says, “I’m going to do X or die trying.” Unfortunately, the latter outcome occasionally happens.
Something doesn't sound quite right.
Her basketball training session...?
Whut the fluck? You must mean BASIC TRAINING SESSION.
Wikipedia really say what you posted Ben?
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6'1", so that makes sense.
Possibly the victim of too many unrealistic hollywood movies.
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