LE PECQ, France (AP) — A 75-year-old French adventurer has died on a solo try to row throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
The loss of life of Jean-Jacques Savin was introduced by his buddies on a Fb web page that had been chronicling his voyage.
They stated maritime rescue providers situated his physique on Saturday contained in the cabin of his boat, named “Audacious,“ which was discovered overturned off the Azores Islands, a mid-Atlantic Portuguese archipelago.
The previous soldier set off on Jan. 1 from the southern tip of Portugal on the westward voyage he had anticipated would take about three months.
In 2019, Savin had beforehand floated alone throughout the Atlantic in a big barrel-shaped capsule. Propelled solely by winds and currents, that crossing from Spain’s Canary Islands to the Caribbean took 127 days.
Savin had activated two misery beacons on Thursday evening.
“Sadly, the ocean this time was stronger this time than our good friend, he who so liked navigating and the ocean,“ the Fb submit asserting his loss of life stated.