Pressroom/Media

OAR Northwest has been featured world-wide in all news mediums, capturing the imagination of millions upon millions of people.  Scroll down to view some sample articles and videos.

Media Members
  - Download OAR Northwest Media Kit

For Media Inquiries:
Greg Spooner (Expedition Team Member) — 206.795.4184
Michael King (Media Consultant) — 206.604.0548

CWF Salish Sea Expedition 2012

5/11/12 – Rowers endure gruelling expedition (Calgary Herald)
5/3/12 – Rowers complete Vancouver Island ‘test lap’ (The News Tribune)
5/2/12 - VIDEO: Interview Adam Kreek on CTV live national news broadcast (CTV.ca)
4/26/12 – Podcast: Interview Adam Kreek on CBC Radio On The Coast (On The Coast, CBC Radio One with Stephen Quinn)
4/24/12 – Podcast: Greg Spooner from the boat deck (Seattle’s 102.5 FM KZOK, The Bob Rivers Show)
4/24/12- VIDEO: CWF Salish Sea Expedition, Episode 3 (Shaw Communications)
4/22/12 - Ready oar not: Rowboat crew is circling Vancouver Island (The Globe and Mail)
4/19/12 - Testing the waters (Bowen Island Undercurrent)
4/18/12 – Rowers Circumnavigation Vancouver Island (Island Tides)
4/18/12 - VIDEO: CWF Salish Sea Expedition, Episode 2 (Shaw Communications)
4/18/12 – CWF Salish Expedition Underway (Rowing News)
4/17/12 – VIDEO: CWF Salish Sea Expedition, Episode 1 (Shaw Communications)
4/12/12 – Rowers Embark Upon Vancouver Is Adventure (Huffington Post)
4/11/12 – PHOTOS: Rowing team begins journey around Vancouver Is (Seattle Times)
4/11/12 – Three weeks, four big men and one small boat (Three Sheets Northwest)
4/11/12 – VIDEO: Adam & Jordan on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer – Part 1 – Part 2
4/10/12 – VIDEO: Appetite for Adventure (CTV News Canada)
4/6/12 – VIDEO: Rowers take on huge challenge – Vancouver Island (King 5 TV – Seattle)
4/4/12 - Extreme rowers test safety skills before taking on the Atlantic Ocean (Anacortes American)
3/31/12 - How to learn life’s lessons? Row across the Atlantic (Bainbridge Island Review)
12/31/11 – What’s on the horizon for the outdoors in 2012? | OAR Northwest on list of six (The Olympian)
12/14/11 - OAR Northwest rowers at it again | Adventure The News Tribune (The News Tribune)
9/1/11 – Adam Kreek’s Excellent Adventure; An Olympian’s Sea Change (Rowing News)
8/22/11 – Olympic rower Kreek, 3 friends to circumnavigate Island in April (Victoria Times Colonist)
8/20/11 – Four Rowers Plan to Circle Vancouver Island – For Starters (Seattle Times)
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10/19/10 – VIDEO: OAR Northwest Visits Glanford Middle School in Victoria, BC
1/26/10 – Vashon Island Beachcomber -“Rowers plan to circumnavigate Vashon to prepare for cross-Atlantic row“

North Atlantic Rowing Race 2006

2006 - Tacoma News Tribune’s OAR Northwest website (“The Finish was Magic” in addition to many articles from 2006 Atlantic row)
8/22/06 – No oar-dinary adventure in crossing Atlantic (Seattle Times)
8/19/06 – Seattle Rowers Triumph in Race Across the Atlantic (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
6/23/06 – Breathing Lessons: Rowing across the Atlantic (20/20, ABC News)
6/11/06 – Rowers: England ‘Oar’ Bust (New York Post)
6/9/06 – Four-man Seattle team will try to row across Atlantic (Good Morning America, ABC News)
May 2006 – Ocean Advice (Rowing News magazine)
April 2006 – Breathing Lessons: Jordan Hanssen seeks to conquer the North Atlantic & asthma (MSN Health)
Fall 2006 – The Crossing (Arches Magazine, University of Puget Sound Alumni Publication)

Press Releases

2/10/12 - OAR Northwest & Canadian Wildlife Federation Join Forces
5/5/11 – Matching Muscle Against Motor: Guinness Wold Record holders lead yacht parade
1/19/11 – Changing Course: World Record Holders to Bridge Three Continents
6/29/10 - Back to Sea: Daring Local Ocean Crossers’ 1st Major Training Row
4/20/10 - Daring local ocean crossers to lead parade of boats
2/22/10 - One record not enough, local rowers to cross Atlantic again