Triple amputee’s solo Pacific sail more dangerous each day

A veteran who was trying to become the first triple ampere to navigate only through the Pacific Ocean said the trip was becoming more dangerous with every day that passed.

Craig Wood, a former army rifle who lost both legs and his left arm in a bomb explosion on the road in Afghanistan, sails without stopping for 7,000 nautical miles (12,964 mm) from Mexico to Japan for charity.

Doncaster’s 33 -year -old player departed from Puerto Vallarta on March 25 and hopes to get to Osaka in early June to avoid the Typhon season of Japan.

Speaking, he addresses his 41 -foot aluminum catamaran (12 m) Sirius II near Hawaii on Friday, he said: “The more it takes me, the more danger I am.”

Wood, who normally lives in the boat with his fiancee and two young children, found his first hiccups at the beginning of his trip.

“I noticed that the duration is a routine verification that the water had Godes in my starboard engine,” he said.

“This is not a group at this time, since I am sailing, but I will need the engine once I arrive in Japan to enter the port, so I have spent some time working on it and I hope they solve it in advance.”

Apart from that, he has a soft leg navigation for Mr. Wood, who said that his biggest challenge has hit us to spend time, especially with so little to see in the open ocean.

“This was quite surprised. I was thinking that it would be wildlife, wildlife, wildlife,” he said.

“I thought ‘Oh, I’m going to see many birds, it is better to get a book’, but that’s not the leg in the case.”

He added: “I will become a little more shantily on the weather, closer to Japan I am.”

In retrospect, he said he wanted to have prepared his kind electronic reader with more reading material, and packed much more rescine meat.

After almost a month at sea, the father of two children said that arriving in Japan and completing his trip would fill him with a “feeling of achievement never inferior.”

“The more the oceans are exposed, the higher the percentage of something that will go wrong,” he said.

“It will be a great feeling of achievement and emotional to be with my family again.”

As part of his trip, he is raising money to become Starboard and Blesma, two beneficial organizations that supported him through his own recovery.

Wood was only 18 when his first tour in Sangin was seriously injured, Afghanistan, in 2009.

He suffered a collapsed lung, lost 27 blood pints, underwent 20 operations and spent 14 days in a coma.

He expects his expedition through the Pacific Ocean to inspire others and change the perceptions of “which is possible for people with disabilities.”