Chris Martin (rower)

[6] In 2006, Martin joined a team of Royal Marines Reserves in a row from London to Paris as part of their preparations for breaking the record for the Atlantic east to west route.

[9][10] and ran out of food requiring a helicopter resupply [11] from Wayne Lackey[12] 189 Days, 10 Hours, 55 Minutes after the pair set out from Japan they rowed their boat Bojangles underneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday 13 November 2009.

[14] The footage they filmed on their trip was turned into a documentary presented by James Cracknell for Discovery Channel and was aired for the first time on 10 May 2012.

[15] In 2011, Martin founded the New Ocean Wave,[16] to manage the Great Pacific Race from Monterey,[17] California to Honolulu, Hawaii, to be run in 2014.

In 2013, Martin organized the biennial NOMAN Barcelona to Ibiza race,[19] on behalf of the HPV and Anal Cancer Foundation.