Angela Madsen on Swoop’s World Late Night

Angela Madsen – Photo from Rowoflife.com by Dman Photography

On Wednesday February 25, 2015 at 8pm/PST (10pm/CST, 11pm/EST) we are happy welcome the return of Paralympian Angela Madsen to Swoop’s World Late Night. This will be our first opportunity to talk to her since she completed her Military & Veteran Tribute Ocean Row from Long Beach, Ca. to Honolulu, Hi. As many of you know Angela often finishes one adventure and moves right into her next. She is currently training for a return to the Paralympics which will take place the summer of 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Of course after our interview with  Angela Madsen, we’ll be up to all of our usual fun with our Brewskis beer tasting segment, TBones Timeout, USC legend Anthony Davis, as well as our crazy thoughts about interesting news stories of the day. Swoop’s World Late Night is on Wednesday’s from 8pm/PST – 11pm/PST tune in at Swoopsworld.com.

Angela Madsen
Angela Madsen is an accomplished ocean rower with 6 Guinness World Records for rowing oceans. On June 10, 2013 she set out to row a solo ocean rowing boat with no support boat from California to Hawaii. She was to stay on her little boat the entire time, no one to give her any food or water. She needed to have enough provisions on board to sustain her for as long as the journey was to take. Her goal was to row as many hours a day as she possibly could and try not to drift too far off course while asleep.

Her quest to attempt the solo row began with the idea followed by logistical planning, purchase, the shipping and outfitting of a solo rowing boat. It became a tribute row to Veterans of all services and to Spirited Adventurer and her friend Orlando Rogers who was tragically killed in a plane crash on May 15th 2011. He was 26 years of age and was a Royal Marine. Orlando was very supportive of Angela and all of her projects and he was very excited about her intentions to do a solo row. It was during the planning for the row that she felt it would be fitting to make that row a tribute to honor his memory. He wanted and planned on being there for Angela as he was on the Circumnavigation of Great Britain. “Though it will not be the same, he will be there with me for every rowing stroke and every nautical mile. Orlando was a very special and amazing person. The name of my boat shall be The Spirit of Orlando” said Angela.

Due to severe weather related problems Angela was forced to abort her California to Hawaii row and leave her boat adrift on the high seas. Her story of getting home, eventually locating her boat and getting it back to her home base is but yet another small chapter in her remarkable story.

On  May 20, 2014 Angela and Tara Remington set off from Long Beach, Ca. for their Military & Veteran Tribute Row and arrived in Honolulu, HI. July 19, 2014.