Ray Carroll (born 1977) is an Irish

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. A native of

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, Carroll was part of a four-man crew that set a new record for trans-

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rowing in August 2010. His crewmates were skipper Leven Brown (37), Don Lennox (41), and

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(39), their ship the ''Artemis Investments''. The crew set a new record of forty-three days, twenty-one hours, twenty-six minutes and forty-eight seconds to complete the three thousand miles from

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to the

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. The previous record was set by Norwegians George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen in 1896. They departed New York 17 June 2010. Carroll has been a rower since aged eleven, when he joined the rowing team of Galway's Colaiste Iognaid ('the Jes'). He competed for Ireland in a Junior World Championship, a European Championship, and a World Student Games. After finishing his education he became a marine engineer and sailed in the merchant navy for twelve years. In 2007 he joined Brown and Lennox on the Atlantic in ''La Mondiale''. Carroll raised more than €90,000 for depression charity Aware in memory of his brother, Aiden, who died in 1997. Carroll chose the charity Jigsaw, which is a free and confidential support service for 15- to 25-year-olds in Galway city and county.

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