Twenty-two year old Katie Spotz just finished rowing across the Atlantic to raise money for a group called Blue Planet Run Foundation, which tries to provide clean drinking water for those who don’t have it.

“Are you nuts?” Dan Spotz, her father, said when she told him about her plan. “When she rode a bike across the entire country, she didn’t have to worry about sharks or pirates.”

Spotz did see sharks. She was splashed by dolphins as big as her boat. [Blogger: unlikely. Her boat was 19 feet long.] Fish leapt and slapped her in the face, and exhausted birds nestled beside her as she rowed.

Spotz has also run across the Mojave Desert, swum the entire Allegheny River, and cycled across the US. Impressive.