An experienced ocean rower has been given a 12-month suspended prison sentence after a crew member was lost overboard from his vessel in the middle of the Atlantic.
Simon Chalk, 51, of Astley Burf, Stourport-on-Severn, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
