South African adventurer and philanthropist Gerhard Moolman returned to land on January 7, after weeks of navigating the Atlantic Ocean ... from Cape Verde to the shores of Cayenne French Guiana ...

Tens of thousands of people from as far away as Bangladesh attempt to make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea every year to reach the shores ... to the Africa's Atlantic coast ...

Maybe it's North Carolina, whose Cape Hatteras juts out into the Atlantic? It's closer ... a nice long swim over to the sand-swept shores of northwest Africa, you might want to want to start ...