A Frenchman has achieved an unprecedented adventure: he crossed the Atlantic in a barrel adrift – 05/09/2019

The unprecedented adventure of French Jean-Jacques Savin This literally resulted in a good port. Thursday, at dawn, the French adventurer arrived on Martinique, Caribbean island, final destination of a trip of more than four months in the Atlantic. aboard a small barrel-shaped boat led only by the sea currents.

"It was a exciting journeybut also very risky, "said the 72-year-old ex-soldier after hugging his partner, Josyane, who was waiting at the port of Fort-de-France. The adventurer n & # 39; 39 did not use a sail or oar: he only let the currents they will take it naturally.

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Savin left his barrel last Friday, after 127 days and 5,800 kilometers at sea, and embarked in an oil tanker that took him to the Dutch island of St. Eustache, in the Caribbean.

After a short break in St. Eustache, the adventurer and his barrel were transferred to Martinique by a French tugboat.

In the port of Martinique was also received by one of his friends, Pierre Galzot. "It's the Jean-Jacques Savin I've known for 40 years, an extremely resilient man, very well trained and, frankly, he's not too thin," said Galzot, a physician by profession. go to the hospital for a "complete checkup".

Savin spent months working on his original ship in the small shipyard of Ares, on the southwestern coast of France. The capsule, three meters long with a width of 2.10 meters, is made of plywood coated with plastic, strongly reinforced to withstand waves and possible attacks of orcas.

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In the interior, which weighs 450 kilos when it's empty, there are airbags and Savin is gone to move a space of six square meterswhich includes a kitchen, a bunk and a storage room.

This former military paratrooper departed on December 26 from the Spanish island of El Hierro, in the Canaries, to cross the Atlantic with the unique strength of the currents. During his journey, the adventurer he lost four pounds, one for each month of navigation.

The pbadionate sailor Alain Bombard, who crossed the Atlantic only in 1952 on an inflatable boat, said he had filled his offer to cross the ocean after entering the Caribbean Sea on 27 April. Along the way, he dropped markers for an international marine observatory, in an effort to help oceanographers study ocean currents. And he will be the subject of a study on the effects of loneliness in isolation.

Source: AFP

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