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A sole occupied rowing boat in distress in the Coral Sea, hundreds of kilometres off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on March 1, 2025. Australian Department of Defence
A Lithuanian rower has been rescued off the Queensland coast after he was caught in a tropical cyclone’s 130km/h winds and monster waves.
Aurimas Mockus ran into trouble about 740km east of Mackay while attempting a 12,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from San Diego to Brisbane in his solo rowing boat.