{"id":20453,"date":"2022-08-05T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shipip.com\/?p=20453"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:57:07","slug":"french-sailor-survives-16-hours-in-capsized-boat-in-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/french-sailor-survives-16-hours-in-capsized-boat-in-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"French sailor survives 16 hours in capsized boat in Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 12-metre vessel, which had set sail from Portugal’s capital Lisbon, sent out a distress signal late on Monday evening from the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Spanish coastguards found the upturned boat, but the sea was too rough to rescue him – so the sailor had to wait until morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The man’s survival was “verging on the impossible”, said coastguard divers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His boat sent a distress signal at 20:23 local time on Monday, 14 miles (22.5 km) from the Sisargas Islands, near Spain’s north-west Galicia region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A rescue ship carrying five divers as well as three helicopters set off to find and rescue the man, who has not yet been named.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A diver was winched onto the ship’s hull to seek signs of life and the man responded by banging from inside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The sea was rough and the sun had gone down, so the rescue team attached buoyancy balloons to the boat to stop it from sinking and waited until morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The next day, two divers swam under the boat to help the sailor out, who they found wearing a neoprene survival suit and submerged in water up to his knees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The man then jumped into freezing water and swam under the boat towards the sea’s surface.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a tweet, Spain’s Maritime Safety and Rescue Society said: “Each life saved is our biggest reward.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vicente Cobelo, a member of the coastguard’s special operations team, said the sailor got into the water “of his own initiative” .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But, Mr Cobelo added, divers helped pull the sailor out, as it was difficult for him to get out of his suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was airlifted by the rescue team and briefly taken to hospital for checks.<\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-62413556<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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