Don Victor Mooney

Victor Mooney completed a 5,000-mile journey rowing across the Atlantic Ocean in 2014, Don Victor Mooney experienced the Delmarva Peninsula, where Harriet Tubman was raised and later escaped slavery.  "She used nature to navigate to freedom," Mooney said last week. Mooney completed the dangerous and spiritual journey from Africa to the United States in 2015 in the memorial of his brother, who died of AIDS. 

Years after the New York man rowed across the Atlantic Ocean — the same path his enslaved ancestors endured 400 years ago — Mooney traveled back to Africa this year and retrieved a memorial stone from Senegal.

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• The NY Harbor School School’s Vessel Operations program was fortunate to support Victor’s arrival in NYC, towing his vessel and storing it at the Brooklyn Navy Yard while he was attended to by first responders for exhaustion. He was able to share his experiences with our students several weeks later on Governors Island which made quite an impact on our young people.

• https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2019/11/10/man-brings-africa-tubman-memorial-u-s-after-5-000-mile-journey/4101543002/

• https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/11/28/atlantic-rowing-aids/