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Curtis Lloyd Saville, 1946-2001 |
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Meeting of the ocean
rowers at the Royal Geographical Society. |
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It has been 12 years since ocean rower Curtis Lloyd Saville, accomplished explorer and musician died in the Eastern Desert of Egypt while on a solo desert mountain expedition on April 28, 2001. Curt and his wife Kathleen
McNally Saville successfully completed two major ocean crossing
expeditions: they rowed a 25-foot boat (which they built) across
the Atlantic (from Casablanca to Antigua) in 1981 and they rowed the same boat, the
Excalibur, across the
Pacific Ocean from Peru to Australia in 1984. During these ocean expeditions, Curtis obtained samples of unusual
marine surface
conditions and photographed marine life. Curtis' other expeditions
include exploratory mountaineering along the Virginia Glacier on the
South East edge of Baffin Island in the High Arctic. This was part
of the Canadian Polar Continental Shelf Project. |
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