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[[File:Debra rowing into Barbados.jpg|thumb|Debra Searle arriving into Barbados after 3.5 months alone rowing the Atlantic]] |
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===Atlantic Rowing Race=== |
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Searle and her then husband Andrew Veal attempted to row across the Atlantic in the Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Challenge |
Searle and her then husband Andrew Veal attempted to row across the Atlantic in the Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Challenge 2001–2002. Her husband was forced to retire from the race after two weeks after becoming mentally overwhelmed by the ocean and had to return to land. Debra Searle continued alone, arriving in Barbados after 111 days at sea.<ref name = indy>{{cite news |title=The Interview: Debra Veal |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/312023370 |access-date=8 December 2025 |work=The Independent |date=7 April 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rower Completes Atlantic Crossing |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1783704.stm |accessdate=25 August 2011 |date=26 January 2002 |work=BBC News}}</ref> [[Ben Fogle]], the adventurer and TV presenter who rowed the Atlantic with [[James Cracknell]] in 2005 claimed to have been inspired by Searle’s crossing in his book ”The Crossing”, written with James Cracknell.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Crossing |year=2006 |isbn=1-84354-511-X |pages=4 |author=James Cracknell |author2=Ben Fogle|publisher=Atlantic }}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 23:59, 8 December 2025
British adventurer
Debra Louise Searle (née Newbury, later Veal) is a British adventurer. Searle rowed across the Atlantic in 2002 alone after her then husband and rowing partner, Andrew Veal became overwhelmed by the ocean.
Early life and education
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Searle has an identical twin sister called Hayley Barnard.[1]
Atlantic Rowing Race
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Searle and her then husband Andrew Veal attempted to row across the Atlantic in the Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Challenge during 2001–2002. Her husband was forced to retire from the race after two weeks after becoming mentally overwhelmed by the ocean and had to return to land. Debra Searle continued alone, arriving in Barbados after 111 days at sea.[2][3] Ben Fogle, the adventurer and TV presenter who rowed the Atlantic with James Cracknell in 2005 claimed to have been inspired by Searle’s crossing in his book The Crossing, written with James Cracknell.[4]
In 2007, she captained a Dragon Boat across the English Channel.[5]
Searle was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2002 Birthday Honours.[6] She was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in the 2014 New Year Honours for her work for the Royal Family and as a trustee of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.[7]
