Atlantic. Done!
After 50 days 8 hours and 55 minutes, Ocean’s Elite have successfully completed Mission Atlantic and have arrived into Barbados.
We’ll write more in this post later but for now all that needs to be done is for us all to celebrate a job well done by our veteran team.
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