Complex sentence: Later Shane was accompanied for much of the voyage by his girlfriend, a photographer from Switzerland, Iris Derungs, he sailed westabout through the Panama Canal, circling the globe and returning to England as a local celebrity eight years later.
Split into simpler sentences: Later Shane was accompanied for much of the voyage by his girlfriend, a photographer from Switzerland, Iris Derungs. He sailed westabout through the Panama Canal, circling the globe and returning to England as a local celebrity eight years later.