The Daily Mail (London, England), March 31st, 2001
Byline: RICHARD SHEARS
HE HAD fought off man-eating sharks with a home-made harpoon and narrowly missed being smashed to pieces by an ocean tanker - but Jim Shekhdar saved the most dramatic moment of his single-handed row across the Pacific for the last 50 yards yesterday.
After nine months, one day and 12 minutes rowing single-handedly from South America to Australia, the 54-year-old Londoner came close to being killed by his own boat when he was tossed overboard in wild surf off the Queensland coast.
As he tried to come ashore on a long white beach near Brisbane he was twice thrown out ...
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