Rex Fisher to row the Atlantic in memory of his father – ShootingUK

Rex Fisher, son of the late BAFTA-winning TV screenwriter, fishing broadcaster and Recording times employee Nick Fisher, prepares to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Less than two years after his father’s suicide, Rex is raising money for Tackling Minds, a charity that promotes the mental health benefits of fishing.

Rex is part of a four-man team that competes in an annual race known as the World’s Toughest Row. Rex’s team will row 24 hours a day, in three-hour shifts, battling sleep deprivation, salt ulcers and the physical extremes of navigating the world’s second largest ocean.

Nick Fisher (inset) was the creator and presenter of Channel 4’s Screaming Reels series, Radio 5 Live’s Dirty Tackle and co-author of the award-winning River Cottage book Fish with friend and fishing buddy Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. In November 2022, Nick’s body was discovered in a hotel near his home in Dorset. He had succumbed at the age of 63 to a lifelong battle with mental illness and addiction.

Suicide has been the leading cause of death among men under 50 for twenty years.

“I wanted to make this fight to show those suffering the aftermath of suicide that there is life afterward,” Rex said. ST. “Not the same life, not necessarily a brighter life, but a stronger, more resilient life.”

You can support Rex in his row via his GoFundMe page: bit.ly/rexrows