Sara G crew member Mark Beaumont rowed 450 miles (724km) across the Arctic last year
Five British rowers are adrift in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean after capsizing while trying to get from Morocco to Barbados, coastguards say.
The crew, which also included a sixth rower from the Irish Republic, were 27 days into their journey when the 36ft (11m) vessel overturned on Monday.
Coastguards in Falmouth, Cornwall, who are co-ordinating their rescue, said they were “safe and well”.
A cargo ship is on its way to rescue them and is due to arrive within hours.
The crew of the Sara G hit trouble some 500 miles (800 km) from their destination during the Atlantic Odyssey challenge, an attempt to row the Atlantic in less than 30 days.
Satellite phoneThe Atlantic Odyssey website names them as captain Matt Craughwell; father-of-four Ian Rowe, 45; Aodhan Kelly, 26, from Dublin; Simon Brown, 37, a father-of-three from Wiltshire; father-of-two Yaacov Mutnikas and Mark Beaumont, 29, a documentary maker from Perthshire.
UK coastguards, who are co-ordinating their rescue with authorities in Martinique, said the crew had lashed their life raft to the hull of their overturned boat.
The Nord Taipei, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, has been dispatched to rescue them.
And another vessel, the Naparima, is also due to reach the overturned boat’s location by 0430 GMT.
“The shore contact for the Sara G managed to get through to the crew of the boat via satellite phone and ascertained that the boat had capsized,” a coastguard spokesman said.
“They had abandoned to the life raft, which was tethered to the capsized vessel. All crew are said to be safe and well.”
The Sara G is the latest boat to get into trouble during a transatlantic rowing challenge this winter.
In December, British rower Tom Fancett and Tom Sauer, who has dual Dutch and Russian nationality, were rescued by a merchant ship after 10 hours floating in a life raft.
Their small boat sank in rough seas some 500 miles south-west of the Canary Islands as they attempted to reach the Bahamas during the Atlantic Ocean Rowing Race.
