An ambulance crew hope their “silly” moustaches will “encourage people to open up” about their mental health past “Movember” while they attempt to virtually row the Atlantic.
The team of 12 from the Guildford and Chertsey 999 need to row a total of 4,720km, which equates to roughly 157km a day.
Sam Leroy, a paramedic from the team, read a book by Ben Fogle and James Cracknell who rowed the Atlantic and joked “that sounds relatively easy”, which sparked the idea for the virtual row.
To generate more conversations, the team have grown moustaches to mark Movember, an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues.
“That moustache sort of generates that conversation with people as you have people asking ‘why are you all growing that’ to encourage people to open up”, the 28-year-old told the PA news agency.
Samuel Garman, 31, an operations manager,…
