 Also as a teenager, he read of Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo's famous row across the Atlantic Ocean (then the only ocean to have been rowed) and knew that someday he would row across the Atlantic.At the age of 20 Fairfax attempted "suicide-by-jaguar".He kept a revolver with him just in case he changed his mind which he did in the end and shot the jaguar and sold the skin.